5 Top Takeaways from the IPCC 6th Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 6th report on the physical basis of climate change. The report pulls together the entire body of research related to climate change, writing summaries intended for informed readers, such as policymakers. Their reports are considered the gold standard of climate change understanding, as everything in the report has essentially undergone double review. It is the best of the best.

Global average temperature, reconstructed from paleoclimate data until the mid-1800s (blue shading and line), then taken from instrument observed records (black line). The blue bar on the right is the estimated temperature during the warmest multi-century period in the last 100,000 years (which happened about 6,500 years ago, under a warmer part of the orbital cycles than we are in now). From Figure SPM.1.