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Climate change IPCC report is 'code red for humanity', UN scientists say

Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades, a UN climate report has concluded.

Humanity's damaging impact on the climate is a "statement of fact", UN scientists have found in unprecedented research combining more than 14,000 studies. The past five years have been the hottest on record since 1850.