Kathmandu, Aug. 22 -- That in a nutshell are the main findings of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I sixth assessment report (AR6) released on 9 August. The report is a meta-study of 140,000 scientific papers reviewed by 234 experts. It confirms what scientists and analysts have been saying for decades about rising greenhouse gases (GHGs) on our planet's atmosphere.

Everywhere across planet Earth, we are observing more extreme rainfall, severe floods, longer droughts, more intense hurricanes and cyclones, worse forest fire, and intense heat waves. This year, unprecedented floods ravaged China, India, Western Europe, and many other places.

Northwestern US, Canada and Siberia are still being ravaged by r...