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The climate crisis is here, get used to it

The IPCC report on 1.5 C concludes that humanity must fundamentally change the way we produce, distribute and consume almost everything, starting with energy

When teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, nominated for the Peace Nobel this year, scolded titans of industry in Davos and heads of state at the United Nations, she told them to look at the science.

Excellent advice, but not for the faint of heart. If economics is the "dismal science", research on global warming has become the science of our dismal future.

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