1. The Latest IPCC Synthesis Report: What We Learned About Climate Science, and What We Learned About Ourselves.
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Cook, Lindsey Fielder
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CLIMATOLOGY , *PHYSICAL sciences , *FUGITIVE emissions , *CLEAN energy , *GREENHOUSE gases , *CLIMATE change , *CLIMATE feedbacks , *ENERGY consumption , *CLIMATE change skepticism - Abstract
We learned that global action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been lower than predicted, and that under current rates, emissions are projected to rise. Graph I View of the dais during the afternoon plenary, IPCC58 - March 16, 2023. i The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 to inform our governments of the latest climate science - what is happening, why, and what we humans can do about it. For example, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is popular with fossil fuel interests, yet CCS is not proven to scale, maintains fossil fuel dependence, is more expensive, and is both less effective in reducing GHG emissions and less equitable in ownership than renewable energy transformations. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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