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NEW YORK CITY -- When Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, it changed everything New York City thought it knew about storms.
"The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health," says the major report designed to guide world leaders in their efforts to curb climate change. Delaying cuts in heat-trapping carbon emissions and waiting on adapting to warming's impacts, it warns,"will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.
"Climate change is killing people," said co-author Helen Adams of King's College London."Yes, things are bad, but actually the future depends on us, not the climate." Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe of The Nature Conservancy, who wasn't part of the latest report, calls it the"Your House is on Fire" report.
By 2050, a billion people will face coastal flooding risk from rising seas, the report says. More people will be forced out of their homes from weather disasters, especially flooding, sea level rise and tropical cyclones. Monday's 36-page summary, condensed from more than 1,000 pages of analysis, was written by scientists and then edited line-by-line by governments and scientists with that final summary approved by consensus Saturday during a two-week virtual conference that occurred while Russia invaded Ukraine. In the final hours, a Ukrainian delegate made an impassioned plea that the war not overshadow the climate change report, some authors said.
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