[ANALYSIS] No good news here: Key IPCC findings on climate change
Attribution science quantifiesg the extent to which human-induced global heating increases the intensity and/or likelihood of a specific extreme weather event such as a heatwave, a hurricane or a wildfirePARIS - The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's first major scientific assessment since 2014, released Monday, shows unequivocally that global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and that humanity is almost entirely to blame.
But these allies in our fight against global heating -- known in this role as carbon sinks -- are showing signs of becoming saturated, and the percentage of human-induced carbon they soak up is likely to decline as the century unfolds.
Because of uncertainty over ice sheets, scientists cannot rule out a total rise of two metres by 2100 in a worst-case emissions scenario.Major advances in palaeoclimatology -- the science of natural climate in Earth's past -- have delivered sobering warnings. Human-induced sources are roughly divided between leaks from natural gas production, coal mining and landfills on one side, and livestock and manure handling on the other.
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