The latest international report on global climate change is ‘a stark warning of the crisis facing the planet,’ according to an expert who writes for Evangelicals Now.
Simon Marsh (see photo), who has expertise in geography, environmental assessment and regional planning, and who works for the RSPB, was speaking after the release of the news delivered by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of scientists whose findings are endorsed by the world’s governments.
Nature expert Marsh, who writes en’s monthly Earth Watch column, said: ‘The latest update of global climate science presents a stark warning of the crisis facing the planet. It’s hard to ignore such a comprehensive review of 14,000 scientific studies. To call it alarmist would be to deny what we are already observing in the world around us.’
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