The article discusses the significant impacts of climate change, particularly the increasing number, intensity, and duration of heatwaves, as well as other extreme weather events attributed to human activity. Climate scientist Michael Mann emphasizes that these changes are critical and unprecedented, while the IPCC confirms that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are the main driver. The report underscores the urgent need to recognize that the extreme weather we experience today is directly tied to our historical reliance on fossil fuels, and it presents a stark reality for current and future generations.
"We find ourselves at a critical point where we're starting to see the impacts of climate change play out in the forms of unprecedented extreme weather events that..."
"The frequency and intensity of hot extremes (including heatwaves) have increased, and those of cold extremes have decreased on the global scale since 1950..."
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