Miguel Wickham analyses the IPCC climate experts' report, which warns of serious consequences for habitability if temperatures continue to rise as a result of human action.
The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released, warns of the alarming consequences of increased global warming in the current century.

Climate scientists assume that this rise in temperatures is being fuelled by human action, so that they say CO2 emissions need to be reduced as soon as possible to avoid worst-case scenarios.

The scientist and meteorologist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center in Texas, explains in an article in Time magazine the main conclusions of the sixth report, in which dozens of experts from all over the world have participated.

“Climate change is real, it is man-made and it is serious. The power of this new report lies in the starkness with which those findings are presented”, says Hayhoe.

The report is very clear in showing the climate impact that can already be seen in the desertification, the rising sea levels or the rising temperatures, which are causing certain meteorological phenomena to become more extreme and more frequent.

However, there is still time to avoid the worst. This will require a profound change towards more sustainable consumption, and the involvement of companies and governments in a drastic reduction of the emissions that accelerate global warming.

Spanish news website Protestante Digital talked with Miguel Wickham, co-author of the book Ecology and climate change, a Christian reflection, and Christian communicator on issues of ecology and creation care, about his views on the sixth IPCC report.

Question. The IPCC warns that the situation is worrisome. What should change so that the most catastrophic forecasts do not come true?
Answer. It is no longer worrisome, the situation is now dramatic. The IPCC report recently released is just the result of Working Group I, which is dedicated solely and exclusively to describing data and phenomena, evaluating them and projecting them into future scenarios.

Working Group II is responsible for describing the impacts of climate change. Its report is due in six months. Finally, Working Group III is responsible for presenting mitigation measures.

Although the conclusions presented are not new, the way they are expressed has changed. There is a noticeable 'this is as far as we have come'. Thirty years of rejection of their studies, recommendations and conclusions by world leaders and industry have exhausted the patience of the ever-cautious scientists, seeing the situation as dire.

Desertification is one of the most worrying consequences of rising global temperatures / Wesley Tingey, Unsplash.

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