Landmark UN <br />Climate Change Report , Is a 'Code Red for Humanity'.<br />The report was compiled by <br />scientists with the United <br />Nations' Intergovernmental <br />Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). .<br />The report describes human contribution to <br />"widespread and rapid" climate change as "unequivocal." <br />It was released on Aug. 9.<br />Bottom line is that we have zero years left to avoid dangerous climate change, because it's here, Michael E. Mann, Lead Author of IPCC 2001 Report, via CNN.<br />The IPCC has been studying climate change for more than three decades.<br />Its most recent 3,500 page report is based on data from more than 14,000 studies and is the work of 234 authors.<br />The report took more than a decade to compile.<br />Responding to the study, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres referred to it as “a code red for humanity,”.<br />and called on the global community to institute the changes necessary to mitigate the worst effects.<br />The only way to prevent exceeding this threshold is by urgently stepping up our efforts, and pursuing the most ambitious path, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, via CNN.<br />We owe this to the entire human family. There is no time for delay and no room for excuses, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, via 'The Washington Post'.<br />Climate change analysts say that global leaders "must have the findings of this report seared into their minds.".<br />This is not just another scientific report. This is hell and highwater <br />writ large, Dave Reay, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, via CNN.<br />The report comes amid a deadly <br />summer of wildfires, .<br />flooding ...<br />and heatwaves
