IPCC report’s verdict on climate crimes of humanity: guilty as hell

Analysis: report exposes the failure to act on the climate crisis - political leaders are now in the dock

• Humans have caused unprecedented' and irreversible' change to climate, scientists warn
• Climate crisis unequivocally' caused by human activities, says IPCC report

As a verdict on the climate crimes of humanity, the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report could not be clearer: guilty as hell.

The repeatedly ignored warnings of scientists over past decades have now become reality. Humanity, through its actions, or lack of action, has unequivocally overheated the planet. Nowhere on Earth is escaping rising temperatures, worse floods, hotter wildfires or more searing droughts.