Since 1992, the IPCC has highlighted rising greenhouse gases, marking their ‘widespread and unprecedented’ impacts by 2014
The report predicted a global temperature rise of about 2C by 2025, compared with the period before the industrial revolution sparked the mass burning of fossil fuels. In 2023, the rise is 1.4C.
The report also made plain that global heating was a serious danger to the world: “Climate change is likely to have wide-ranging and mostly adverse impacts on human health, with significant loss of life.” The then UK environment minister, John Gummer , said at the time: “There will be far-reaching effects on natural systems and human society for generations to come.”“There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities,” the
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