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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its latest synthesis report on climate change, warning that greenhouse gas levels are at their highest in 800,000 years, with recent increases mostly due to burning fossil fuels. ANU experts have responded to the report. Dr Elizabeth Hanna - Convenor, Climate Change Adaptation Research Network - Human Health President: Climate and Health Alliance - National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health - ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment - (Dr Hanna's research was featured in the IPCC report) "This report synthesises the climate science and the adaptive strategies we need to do to protect human health, the environment, society and industry, and the mitigation effort required to keep us all safe. There is a level of urgency that now permeates the report, and we don't have many years left to reduce our levels of carbon in the atmosphere. "We are definitely on track for more warming, more extreme weather events. It won't be too long, according to these trajectories, that capital cities will start to experience temperatures over 50 degrees. If that happens, we are risk of mass death events in Australia, similar to the death tolls due to extreme heat overseas.
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