View from lookout hill of Japanese Gardens, Cowra, NSW, Australia. Credit: John O’Neill/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.
We’ve now been warned by the world’s leading climate scientists that we have just twelve years to limit climate catastrophe. The UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has put the world on notice that going from a 1.5° to 2.0° C rise in temperature above preindustrial levels would have disastrous consequences, with unprecedented flooding, drought, ocean devastation, and famine.
