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4 Ways Climate Change Is Already Taking a Toll

Many consequences of climate change are visible across the planet. Here are some of the worst.

By Avery Hurt
Jun 24, 2022 12:00 PM
Rising sea levels
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an organization founded in 1988 and made up of experts from 197 nations, provides world leaders with regular scientific updates on climate change. It recently released its much-anticipated Sixth Assessment Report — and the news isn’t good.

According to the report, the impacts of climate change currently affecting billions of people worldwide are both more severe and happening sooner than we expected. In other words, the consequences of climate change aren’t going to happen — they’re happening now. Here are a few ways climate change is already affecting us.

1. Heat Waves

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