IN DEPTHCLIMATE CHANGE

Time grows short to curb warming, report warns

Cathleen O'Grady
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Science 13 Aug 2021:

Vol. 373, Issue 6556, pp. 723-724
DOI: 10.1126/science.373.6556.723
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Every time the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues a new
report surveying the science of global warming, the alarm sounds louder. Now, 8
years after its last report, the message of IPCC's latest assessment, released this
week, is urgent and unequivocal: The window for mitigating the worst projected
impacts of global climate change is closing. Average global temperatures are now
1.1°C above preindustrial records, and under every scenario for future greenhouse
gas emissions that the panel examined, average warming of 1.5°C—a target set by the
2015 Paris climate accord—will very likely be reached within the next 20 years
IN DEPTHCLIMATE CHANGE
Time grows short to curb warming, report warns
Cathleen O'Grady
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Science 13 Aug 2021:

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DOI: 10.1126/science.373.6556.723
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Every time the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues a new
report surveying the science of global warming, the alarm sounds louder. Now, 8
years after its last report, the message of IPCC's latest assessment, released this
week, is urgent and unequivocal: The window for mitigating the worst projected
impacts of global climate change is closing. Average global temperatures are now
1.1°C above preindustrial records, and under every scenario for future greenhouse
gas emissions that the panel examined, average warming of 1.5°C—a target set by the
2015 Paris climate accord—will very likely be reached within the next 20 years
IN DEPTHCLIMATE CHANGE
Time grows short to curb warming, report warns
Cathleen O'Grady
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Science 13 Aug 2021:

Vol. 373, Issue 6556, pp. 723-724
DOI: 10.1126/science.373.6556.723
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Summary
Every time the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issues a new
report surveying the science of global warming, the alarm sounds louder. Now, 8
years after its last report, the message of IPCC's latest assessment, released this
week, is urgent and unequivocal: The window for mitigating the worst projected
impacts of global climate change is closing. Average global temperatures are now
1.1°C above preindustrial records, and under every scenario for future greenhouse
gas emissions that the panel examined, average warming of 1.5°C—a target set by the
2015 Paris climate accord—will very likely be reached within the next 20 years