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We have seen devastating floods in Europe, China and India in recent days, and scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are meeting to prepare a report on the state of global heating. The role of the panel is to give politicians assessments on climate change.

Bob Ward is policy director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the LSE, and he told Newsday about the significance of the meeting.

鈥淚 think people are starting to join the dots between the climate they can see changing around them and the driver of this which is man鈥檚 emission of greenhouse gases. This report is going to include a focus on the link between climate change and extreme weather events鈥� wildfires, rainfall and heatwaves."

On the positive he said 鈥渢he price of producing solar power and wind power has come down very quickly and they are allowing us to displace fossil fuel from the power mix. But we need to move much more quickly on things like transport and industrial processes. This is going to be difficult but we have no choice.鈥�

Photo: Floods in New Delhi (Getty Images)

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