UN Climate Panel Drops Most Extreme Warming Forecasts, Pressuring Climate Lawsuits (Worthy News In-Depth)

by Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Chief International CorrespondentNEW YORK, USA (Worthy News) – Governments and activist groups pursuing legal action against major energy companies faced renewed scrutiny Wednesday after the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) dropped its most extreme forecast projecting 4 to 6 degrees Celsius (7.2 to 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming by the year 2100.The revised outlook suggests that some earlier doomsday scenarios and al