The Weekly Anthropocene, March 29 2023
The IPCC report, water troughs for wild tapirs, lithium prices, a solar boom in India, an MPA in Chile, and more!
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on March 20, 2023 its AR6 Synthesis Report, the final component of its Sixth Assessment Report, a mammoth summation of human civilization’s current scientific knowledge on climate change. The key takeaway, as a striking graph makes clear (pictured), is that the temperature regime of the planet today’s children will experience when they grow up depends on our near-term choices. For more detail (there’s a lot of valuable information here), check out the headline statements, the press release, the figures, the summary for policymakers, and/or the longer report.
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