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Hot prospects: a sobering IPCC report

The Intelligence from The Economist
The Intelligence from The Economist
Episode • Aug 9, 2021 • 21m

The UN climate body’s latest doorstopper report is unequivocal: climate change is human-caused, and already here—and 1.5°C of warming is looking ever harder to avoid. In Bolivia, debate still rages as to whether a 2019 election was rigged, or a coup; the people want pandemic relief, not paralysed politics. And investigating the received wisdom of the “difficult second novel”.

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