Climate change is real, the work of the IPCC clearly shows that climate change is nothing but real
The intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) was formed in 1988 and its the agency within the United Nations (UN), that is tasked with the scientific assessment of the impact of human activities on the planet’s climate and the potential and practical impacts of the changing climate on the existence of human beings and other living things. As an article by Dialogue.earth put it, the IPCC’s “goal is to inform governments about the latest climate science, and explain what impacts climate change will likely have on the world in the coming decades.” Member countries of the UN are automatic members of the IPCC and they are the ones that recommend climate scientists to do the voluntary work they do for the IPCC. At any given time, there are hundreds of climate scientists, from many countries around the world, working for the IPCC in one capacity or another.
The scientists at the IPCC rely largely on scientific climate research of other scientists, to do their work, generally they do not do research and write original findings or reports for the IPCC. Mostly, they gather the many reports written by other reputable climate scientists around the world and make their assessments on the basis of those findings and in the end, write what is called an ‘Assessment Report’. The IPCC has published six Assessment Reports since 2015. The last one was in 2023, referred to as ‘AR6’ and the next is expected to be published in 2029.
According to the Dialogue.earth article, the work process at the IPCC is divided into three working groups, one group deals with the science of climate change, the second deals with global adaptation and related issues and the other with mitigation issues, these three groups eventually make separate Assessment Reports. The article further claims that normally a separate group of Scientists, appointed by the IPCC, writes and releases a condensed integrated version of the three Assessment Reports which could also incorporate any other necessary information from separate special reports completed specifically for the IPCC. This new comprehensive report is called the ‘Synthesis Report’. The IPCC on occasions appoints members or an individual member, to research and make special reports on topics that it thinks are required to further assist the agency in its overall goal to accurately inform on climate change matters.
In analyzing the latest Synthesis Report published in 2023 (AR6), the World Resources Institute (WRI) states that “drawing on the findings of 234 scientists on the physical science of climate change, 270 scientists on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change, and 278 scientists on climate change mitigation, this IPCC synthesis provides the most comprehensive, best available scientific assessment of climate change.” It is important to note that a total of 782 scientists worked on the three Assessment Reports of 2023. The WRI says the 2023 IPCC Synthesis Report finds that the planet is warming at a heightened pace and the global temperature has already reached 1.1 Degrees Celsius (2 Degrees Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial levels, causing negative impacts on humans and ecosystems at record levels. Another key finding of the Synthesis Report, WRI claims, is that global financing for climate mitigation and adaptation purposes is insufficient and some climate change damages, like coral reefs loss and damaged coastlines, may now be irreversible.
As contends by WRI, the Synthesis Report wants the world to limit, with urgency, its use of fossil fuel and instead embark on the widespread use of renewable energy. It claims the Synthesis Report recognizes that the use of renewable energy alone, may not be enough to stop the planet from exceeding the Paris Agreement’s requirement that the world should not exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Degrees Fahrenheit) rise in temperature, over pre-industrial levels, in order to avoid climate catastrophe and that the Report recommends the increased use of carbon removal and carbon capture techniques as additional tools to reduce greenhouse gasses. According to WRI the Synthesis Report also recommends that countries should not allow economic disparities among them to create unequal adaptation and mitigation achievement levels, and that countries should work together to achieve a “just [renewable energy] transition.”
Climate change is not a lie or a hoax. As indicated earlier, hundreds of renowned reputable climate scientists worked in the 2023 three IPCC assessment working groups and as noted by IPCC itself, the Synthesis Report that followed was written by 30 ‘Core Writers’, scientists appointed by the IPCC, who were subsequently selected from the three Assessment Report groups. A look at the list of writers of the Assessment Reports and the Synthesis Report’s Core Writing Team of 30, indicates clearly that they are all respectable scholars and educators in the climate and environmental science areas. For example, the Core Writing Team of 30 includes Dr. Paulina Aldunce, Professor at the University of Chile. Gabriel Blanco, Professor, National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Katherine Calvin, former chief scientist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States. Dr. William Chung, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada. Friederike Otto, Researcher, University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Mathais Garschagen, Professor, University of Munich, Germany. Yi-Ming Wei, Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. Dr. Joyashree Roy, Professor, Jadavpur University, India. Dr. Frank Jotzo, Professor, Australian National University. Dr. Christopher Trisos, Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
No true or verifiable argument or research has ever been emerged showing that any of the climate information put forward by the goodly global servants working for the IPCC, is a lie.
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