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‘It’s now or never’: World’s top climate scientists issue ultimatum on critical temperature limit
The IPCC has warned that about half of the world’s population is now acutely vulnerable to disasters stemming from the burning of fossil fuels. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The fight to keep global heating under 1.5 degrees Celsius has reached “now or never” territory, according to a new report released Monday by the […]
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Coal’s a ‘stupid investment’ and we’re ‘sleepwalking to climate catastrophe,’ says UN chief Guterres
UN Secretary General António Guterres photographed at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland on Nov. 11, 2021. Jeff J Mitchell | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.N. Secretary General issued a stark warning Monday, saying the planet had emerged from last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow with “a certain naïve optimism” and […]
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