If society doesn’t get serious about the climate crisis this decade “that failure will reverberate for centuries to thousands of years” a leading Irish scientist has warned.
Maynooth University climatology Professor Peter Thorne represented Ireland and the UK as part of a global team who summarised all six reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change into a policy guide for governments.
The AR6 synthesis report was published today and has been dubbed a final warning for humanity.
It outlines how limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre industrial levels is still possible and that we have the solutions to deliver.
