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Extreme heat is rewriting food security. The best fixes are already within reach

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By Kaveh Zahedi, Ko Barrett
| Climate Home News Verified
Kaveh Zahedi is the Assistant Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Director of FAO’s Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment. Ko Barrett is the Deputy Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Every crop, every animal and every fish has a thermal limit, the point where additional heat stops being normal weather and starts doing damage. In food systems, that threshold arrives sooner than many people realise.
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What is COP?

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By Rebecca Lindsey, Eleanor Pierel, Ko Barrett
| NOAA Climate.gov Verified
I’m seeing climate news stories about “COP27”. What is COP? COP is an international climate meeting held each year by the United Nations. COP is short for “Conference of the Parties,” meaning those countries who joined—are “party to,” in legal terms—the international treaty called the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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It's Not Too Late to Mitigate with Ko Barrett

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By Ko Barrett
| outrageandoptimism.org
Paul: [00:00:12] Hello and welcome to Outrage + Optimism! I'm Paul Dickinson, and I'm here today with Christiana for a special episode focusing on the latest Working Group 3 IPCC report. That's the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And we're going to be speaking with Ko Barrett, who's Vice Chair of the IPCC. Thanks for being here. Okay. Today, Christiana and I have the unique opportunity to interview a real expert on the latest Working Group 3 IPCC report on climate change.
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Isn't there a lot of disagreement among climate scientists about global warming?

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By David Herring, Ko Barrett
| NOAA Climate.gov Verified
No. By a large majority, climate scientists agree that average global temperature today is warmer than in pre-industrial times and that human activity is the most significant factor. Today, there is no real disagreement among climate experts that humans are the primary cause of recent global warming. NOAA Climate.gov cartoon by Emily Greenhalgh.
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