What the IPCC report means for Monterey County
Last week, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a damning report, finding that human-caused global warming has affected every inhabited place on Earth and that some changes are already irreversible. Calling the situation a “code red for humanity,” the IPCC warned that the Paris climate agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will require