IPCC report’s verdict on climate crimes of humanity: guilty as hell

Analysis: report exposes the failure to act on the climate crisis – political leaders are now in the dock

People rest from cleaning up the debris of the flood disaster in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany last month. More than 180 people died when heavy rainfall turned tiny streams into raging torrents across parts of western Germany and Belgium, and officials put the death toll in Ahrweiler county alone at 110. Picture: AP Photo/Bram Janssen

As a verdict on the climate crimes of humanity, the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report could not be clearer: guilty as hell.

The repeatedly ignored warnings of scientists over past decades have now become reality.