Key findings from the latest IPCC report

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released their synthesis report of their sixth assessment report (AR6).

To no surprise, their findings are sobering and strongly address the need to reduce human-caused greenhouse gas emissions quickly.

Here are some of the key statements from the report.......

Human activities have unequivocally caused global warming, with widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere.

Human-caused climate change is already impacting many weather and climate extremes worldwide.

Deep, rapid and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would lead to a discernible slowdown in global warming within about two decades.

Many climate-related risks are already higher than were previously assessed in the AR5 report from 2014.

One piece of good news, although it is not nearly enough, the rate of greenhouse gas emission growth slowed from 2.1% per year between 2000 and 2009 to 1.3% per year from 2010 to 2019.

Ocean warming has made up a vast majority of the total heating of the climate system with 91 percent of the share, followed by land warming at 5%, ice loss at 3% and atmospheric warming at 1%.

It is virtually certain that hot extremes have become more frequent and intense across most land regions since the 1950s, while cold extremes have become less frequent and less severe.

Sea level rise will be unavoidable for centuries to millennia due to continuous deep ocean warming and ice sheet melt, which will further increase the risks to low-lying coastal communities. Sea levels will likely remain elevated for thousands of years.

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