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WE KNOW ENOUGH

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS SHARE KEY NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE IPCC’S LATEST REPORT

The new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on PROFESSOR GOVINDASAMY BALA
Climate Change (IPCC) marks the latest comprehensive effort (AR6 WG1 Chapter 4 lead author)
by the world’s climate scientists to summarise the evidence Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences at the Indian Institute of
underpinning their discipline Science, Bangalore
The IPCC has once again hit on a few
s its name implies, the sixth humanity’s role in causing it. key messages that are sure to raise
assessment report (AR6) – Since the fifth assessment report awareness about the serious nature of
the first part of which, from (AR5) was published in 2013-14, the climate crisis that humanity faces.
working group 1 (WG1), was global warming records have been To begin, this is the first time the IPCC
A published in August – is the repeatedly broken and extreme weather has come out with an unambiguous
latest in a series which is updated events have been linked with greater statement that human activities are
every six or seven years to reflect new confidence to rising temperatures. causing climate change.
evidence on climate change. Carbon Brief asked an array of There has been about 1°C warming
In many ways, the IPCC’s message climate scientists, including many in the last 100 years and we expect
has remained consistent since its who contributed to the WG1 report on another 4-5°C in the next 100 years if we
inception, but over the years scientists the “physical science basis” of climate do nothing to address climate change.
have become increasingly clear about change, what they think are its most The IPCC has chosen to highlight this
the threat posed by climate change and important insights. “unprecedented speed” of climate

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