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Essential Reading: Understanding the UN’s ‘Code Red’ Climate Report

What to read to make sense of the United Nations’ grim new report on accelerating climate change, including how your region will be affected by global warming and how to cope with climate anxiety.

Alex Dalenberg

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‘Code Red’: UN Scientists Warn of Worsening Global Warming

Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a new report that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”

We Read the 4000-Page IPCC Climate Report So You Don’t Have To

The most important takeaways from the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are easily summarized: Global warming is happening, it’s caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, and the impacts are very bad (in some cases, catastrophic).

The UN Climate Report: All Is Not Well—but All Is Not Lost

A major new report from the IPCC paints a devastating portrait of climate change. But it also shows that it's not too late for drastic action.

Five Key Excerpts From the United Nations’ Climate Change Report

At nearly 4,000 pages, the report from the IPCC is massive. These five lines highlight their findings.

Here’s How Climate Change Will Stress Your Homeland

Hotter Asia, drier Alps, stormier U.S., saltier island nations.

The U.N. Climate Report‘s Five Futures—Decoded

The U.N. climate panel report on the physical science of climate change uses five possible scenarios for the future. The scenarios are the result of complex calculations that depend on how quickly humans curb greenhouse gas emissions.

A NASA Scientist Explains Why the Weather Is Becoming More Extreme

One of the authors of the UN climate report explains why scientists have gotten so much better at seeing the “human footprint” in each weather disaster.

I’ve Hit My Climate Tipping Point

Understanding global warming intellectually is not the same as feeling its presence in your daily life—or seeing photos of a 50-foot wall of fire.

There’s a Silver Lining in the Extremely Bleak New Climate Report

Thankfully, the report arrives to a citizenry more engaged with the issue than ever before.

How to Fight Climate Despair

We’re not powerless, even if it feels that way.