“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” the report says in its very first finding. Those emissions have increased greatly over time and continue today, as the world grows even warmer. The report laid out five climate futures, in which humans take varying steps to reduce the emissions that cause warming. Under most of the scenarios discussed in the report, warming will continue well beyond 2040, through the remainder of the century. But the report shows that aggressive, rapid and widespread emissions cuts, beginning now, could limit the warming beyond 2050.

Source: International New York Times August 10, 2021 09:18 UTC