Climatic Code Red — Warnings from the IPCC Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) is an international body of the United Nations (UN) tasked with providing objective and scientific insight that is relevant to understanding human-caused climate change, its encompassing impacts on the planet, as well as potential solutions of tackling them.

Since its formation in 1988, it had periodically published a series of comprehensive assessment reports detailing the shifts in climate change, along with any and all factors directly or indirectly associated with these changes. Their findings are not based on their own, original research; rather, they refer to all published materials from thousands of scientists and experts worldwide. Each report tends to carry over a bit of where their predecessors left off, providing an update of sorts between them. To date, the panel has released a total of 6 such reports, with the most recent publication on August 7, 2021.

The latest report underscores the grim reality that we have been expecting throughout these past couple of years. Human-induced climate change is indeed taking a dire point — or… as most has now referred to as a “code red for humanity” — and may possibly lead to a point of no return if we continue down this slope.

“Human influence has warmed the climate at a rate that is unprecedented in at…