The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned Australians they will need to brace for an increase in hot days, heatwaves, bushfires, droughts, sea-level rise, ocean warming, ocean acidification, and other extreme events, while others fear the conclusion is alarmist, irresponsible, and misleading. Part two of IPCC’s sixth assessment report (pdf) predicted that further climate change in the Australiaasia region was “inevitable” and argued that it could only be solved by rapid reduction in emissions “The region faces an extremely challenging future,” the report said. “Reducing the risks would require significant and rapid emission reductions to keep global warming to 1.5-2.0 degrees celsius, as well as robust and timely adaptation.” The report also pointed to what it called a cascading effect that had already led to the risk of “irreversible change” in some instances, such as species extinction, through events like bushfires that has “led to excess deaths …