UN releases Climate Change assessment study

 
A UN panel has released the most comprehensive assessment yet of the effects of climate change on our planet.

• In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.
• Adaptation is becoming embedded in some planning processes, with more limited implementation of response. 
• The overall risks of climate change impacts can be reduced by limiting the rate and magnitude of climate change.
• Climate change is projected to amplify existing climate-related risks and create new risks for natural and human systems.  

BBC News website's science editor Paul Rincon breaks down the key findings from above at the link.

Sobering stuff.