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Global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared and humanity is almost entirely to blame, according to the most comprehensive climate change survey ever published.
The latest report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says every inhabited region on earth is likely to experience frequent extreme weather events involving heat, rain and drought as greenhouse gases continue to push temperatures up.
The report finds even under a moderate emissions scenario, the global effects of climate change will worsen significantly over the coming years and decades.
But the IPCC authors say deep, rapid emissions cuts could spare the world from the most severe warming and associated harms.
Kathryn speaks with one of the authors, Michael Grose - a climate projection scientist with the Australian government agency CSIRO - the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
