Analysis: report exposes the failure to act on the climate crisis – political leaders are now in the dock
- Humans have caused ‘unprecedented’ and ‘irreversible’ change to climate, scientists warn
- Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, says IPCC report
As a verdict on the climate crimes of humanity, the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report could not be clearer: guilty as hell.
The repeatedly ignored warnings of scientists over past decades have now become reality. Humanity, through its actions, or lack of action, has unequivocally overheated the planet. Nowhere on Earth is escaping rising temperatures, worse floods, hotter wildfires or more searing droughts.
