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The findings of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) serve as a dire warning. The previous assessment, some six years before, was a signal of the consequences the planet, and by extension humankind, would suffer if environmental depletion continued as it was. Unfortunately, that warning was either ignored or ridiculed by those with a vested interest in keeping things as they were.
To make matters worse, many scientists could not agree among themselves as to the cause of global warming and its impact. So it became easier to ignore the warnings and for the majority to continue living the same selfish lifestyle.
Now, after five years of more research and several thousand papers supporting the thesis, hundreds of scientists from around the globe say the evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable: We are all contributing to the destruction of this planet and in a faster way than was ever imagined.
So now we know. But will it change people's perceptions? It is doubtful. Even the findings of the IPCC had to be watered down to be more acceptable to some participants, thereby raising again the spectre of noncompliance by those countries who adopt a "you first" to ecology.
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