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IPCC Climate Change Report Upstaged by Ukraine

Dare to Know
6 min readMar 6, 2022

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Sixth Report in the midst of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Find out why the unfortunate timing has diverted attention from a growing global crisis.

We can’t say that nobody warned us. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius discovered the fact that releasing C02 emissions into the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect back in 1896.

Scientists have raised the alarm about greenhouse gases ever since. As the evidence continued to build, the World Meterological Organization (WMO) created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) thirty-four years ago.

The IPCC is now in the process of releasing its sixth assessment report. They’ve come out every five years over the past three decades.

Must Be Enormously Frustrating to Serve on the IPCC

It must be enormously frustrating to have to serve on the IPCC. So far, virtually all of their warnings have fallen on deaf ears and,even today, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise instead of fall.

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