The IPCC’s fifth report, the product of several years of work by hundreds of climate scientists around the world, reviews our established understanding of climate change and explains more recent findings. The media understandably tend to focus on the latter – like the much higher sea-level rise predictions compared to the previous IPCC report of 2007.
这份IPCC的第五份报告由全世界数百位气候学家耗时数年完成，它检视了我们已有的对气候变化的理解，并解释了更晚近的发现。不难理解，媒体的目光总是集中在后者——比如，与此前的2007年IPCC报告相比，这份报告的海平面上升预测提高了很多。但现在让我们把目光从新闻周期中收回，回到金字塔的稳固地基——知识上。