‘Not too late’: Australian scientists call for urgent action to avoid worst of climate crisis

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Australian scientists have stressed it is not too late" to take action to stem the worst of the climate crisis and called on leaders to wake up" after a landmark global science report found widespread and rapid changes were already occurring across the planet.

The latest assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading authority on climate science, found human activities were unequivocally heating the planet and causing changes not seen for centuries and in some cases thousands of years.