Increasing numbers of ticks and mosquitoes transmitting illnesses. Heat and poor air quality aggravate heart and respiratory conditions such as asthma and renal failure. Hundreds of thousands of people die from malnutrition, diarrhea and heat stress. Climate change presents many threats to humans; increasing temperatures result in less food, extreme wildfires, droughts and at the…
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Scientists urge end to fossil fuel use as landmark IPCC report readied | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | The Guardian
The world must abandon fossil fuels as a matter of urgency, rather than entrusting the future climate to untried “techno-fixes” such as sucking carbon out of the air, scientists and campaigners have urged, as governments wrangled over last-minute changes to a landmark scientific report. Talks on the final draft of the latest comprehensive assessment of…
