Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
Fiona Harvey (Guardian, 3 April 2022) ( LINK ) writes: "Scientists fear that their last-ditch climate warnings are going unheeded amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine, and soaring energy prices." The report makes it clear that time is running out. Urgent action is needed in order to prevent further climate deterioration. The previous report garnered little attention, perhaps because it came out just as the invasion of Ukraine began, and there is little hope that this report will get greater attention. The substance of this report grows out of "thousands of scientific papers from the last seven years" and is yet one more indication that the scientific community sees a very serious crisis for the planet. Nonetheless it appears that neither policymakers nor the general public find scientific data sufficiently persuasive to take steps that would make the rich a little less comfortable, even if famine, flood, and death from heatstroke are the conseque