The Toll of Climate Change and Global Warming
Scientists continue to forecast a grim climate future unless drastic changes are implemented immediately.
Sept. 13, 2020 | Oak Grove, Oregon | Shayanne Summers holds her dog, Toph, while wrapped in a blanket at an evacuation center at the Milwaukie-Portland Elks Lodge during wildfires.
In recent years, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued multiple dire warnings suggesting changes to the earth's climate as "irreversible" due to past and future greenhouse gas emission. In an April 2022 report scientists warned that it’s “now or never” to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.AP
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