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Politico (9 August 2021)

BY ZIA WEISE

Europeans will have to get used to floods and fires, with extreme weather events likely to increase in frequency and intensity, the world's top scientists warned. 

In a major report on the state of climate science released Monday, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said human activity is driving "unprecedented" changes to the planet's climate, including some — such as sea-level rise — that are "irreversible" for hundreds or thousands of years. 

But global warming won't look the same everywhere, and thanks to advances in climate modeling, the IPCC's assessment includes detailed projections of how climate change will affect different regions. 

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