IPCC report on Climate Change of Earth

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Just before a significant meeting of the conference of parties 26 (COP26), The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its report on climate change termed the largest ever with inputs from over 14,000 scientific papers and the first after 2013. We will see the impact of this report on the COP26 member's speech and language. 

The report, IPCC Working Group I Report on the Physical Science Basis of the Sixth Assessment, has grim forecasts on how global warming has impacted and will impact us in the near future. Details are just coming out of the report, but scientists are more confident now to attribute the extreme weather events to human-induced global warming and the consequent change in the climate.

In the last report in 2013, scientists were reluctant to attribute extreme weather events like the ones impacting the world to climate change. But the new report seems to have firmly ascribed these to global warming.

In 2018, the IPCC’s Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C had estimated that two-fifths of the global population lived in regions with warming above 1.5°C

One of the examples of the change in oceanic current is the flow of sea currents around Florida’s Gulf coast is usually southwards and then along the Atlantic shoreline of the state. However, counter currents could take algal bloom westwards towards Texas, according to Daniel Roelke, professor and head of marine biology at Texas A&M-Galveston. And we can see this type of other same types of cases in other parts of the world that are not being reported properly. They could not get more attention in the flood of news.

“Warming has accelerated in recent decades. Every fraction of a degree counts. GHG concentrations are at record levels. Extreme weather and climate disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity,” the UN chief said. 

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About IPCC: Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the objective of the IPCC is to provide governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC reports are also a key input into international climate change negotiations. The IPCC is an organization of governments that are members of the United Nations or WMO. The IPCC currently has 195 members. Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the assessment reports, experts volunteer their time as IPCC authors to assess the thousands of scientific papers published each year to provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce those risks. An open and transparent review by experts and governments around the world is an essential part of the IPCC process, to ensure an objective and complete assessment and to reflect a diverse range of views and expertise. Through its assessments, the IPCC identifies the strength of scientific agreement in different areas and indicates where further research is needed. The IPCC does not conduct its own research.