The Trump administration has told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report – the latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and research.

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1. The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report – the latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and research.

   The US had been highly involved in planning for the next installment of the report due out in 2029 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading scientific authority on climate change.

   The IPCC assesses how the climate crisis is affecting the planet according to the latest science. Its reports take thousands of scientists many years to produce and are used to inform policymakers across the world of the risks posed by global warming.

   In a sense, all of the world’s current, accepted knowledge about climate change stems from the IPCC and its reports, the first of which was published in 1990.

2. Were so fucked lol. Already hit 1.5° warming for past 12 months, plus US is gonna start firing up old decommissioned coal power plants, and China’s still building around 1 new coal plant per week. By 2050 we’ll easily be past 2.5-3°, probably past 3-4 by end of the century. Besides, even when we stop emitting, the climate will continue to warm. It was nice while it lasted, I guess the Boomers can say.

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