The Los Angeles Post

UN issues dire warning on climate change in new report

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The newest climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that climate change was “unequivocally” caused by humans and warns that global temperatures are expected to reach a significant warming milestone in the next 20 years.

The planet is expected to reach average temperatures that are 1.5 degrees warmer than a pre-industrial baseline by 2040, according to summaries provided to reporters in advance of the release of the first part of the report on Monday.
A prior special report from the IPCC has found that keeping warming below this level would prevent climate-related impacts on extreme weather, biodiversity and food security.