CLIMATE SCIENCE: Breaking
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QUOTE: Global warming has pushed what would have been a moderate drought in southwestern North America into megadrought territory.
QUOTE: The global mean temperature for 2019 was 1.1±0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels. The year 2019 is likely to have been the second warmest in instrumental records. The past five years are the five warmest on record, and the past decade, 2010–2019, is also the warmest on record. Since the 1980s, each successive decade has been warmer than any preceding one since 1850.
Visit the website of the World Meteorological Organization
IPCC Press Briefing – United Nations, August 8, 2019
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Direct Download: Complete Final Media Materials for Global Assessment Launch, including Summary, Photos, Videos
+ see IDDRI analysis: The ongoing biodiversity loss and how it can be stopped: A reading of the IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
See also the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005 : Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis, World Resources Institute.
