Yale Environment 360: Jennifer Francis, research professor at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey. The just-released IPCC report summarizing progress in climate science over the past six years reaffirms the messages delivered in previous reports, but with more certainty, more urgency, more clarity, and more specificity. Bottom line: the Earth is warming and changing, and humans are causing it. In my view, the most noteworthy aspect of the report is the consistency of the trends...