More bitter truths about climate change

The word "risk" has been used 351 times in the 127-page final draft of the synthesis report that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sent to governments across the world last month. The report combines three earlier, massive tomes of documents by the IPCC, all of which have gone unheeded by a world which has its priorities in all the wrong places.

The IPCC report reiterates global warming is a reality and caused by humans. And most alarmingly, it says the process could be irreversible. The report connects, in the starkest language possible, all the scientific disciplines studying the problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

Issuing a harsh warning, the IPCC once again illustrates what's causing global warming and what it will do to the environment, and thus humans. And, as it has been doing for years, especially since its path-breaking report in 2007, the IPCC has suggested how the problem can be mitigated, saying this is perhaps the last chance to prevent temperatures from rising by about 3.7 C by the end of this century.