The scientists who presented the latest global assessment of climate research on Monday were clear: don’t expect their Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to tell us what to do, policy is for policymakers. This week’s publication, by one of three working groups due to report by September 2022, does not even look at the merits of various changes we could make to our economies and ways of life in addressing global warming – that will be for next year. Yet their compilation of 14,000 scientific publications, establishing the latest knowledge in how our climate is changing and why, gives…

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