Guardian: At this point, the scientists who run the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change must feel like its time to trade their satellites, their carefully calibrated thermometers and spectrometers, their finely tuned computer models all of them for a thesaurus. Surely, somewhere, there must be words that will prompt the worlds leaders to act.
This week, with the release of their new synthesis report, they are trying the words severe, widespread, and irreversible to describe the effects of climate...