Another top United Nations (UN) official will join the international chorus telling Australia it must rapidly phase out coal or else it could suffer devastating climate change consequences. The messages follow the release of the sixth assessment report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded that it was “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” Despite the assuredness, however, peer-reviewed research published shortly after the report accused the IPCC of selectively choosing evidence and ignoring key data involving the sun’s effects on global temperatures. Speaking at a forum this week, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action, Selwin Hart, is expected to say that Australia’s coal industry severely threatens the nation’s economy. “We urge Australia to seize this moment,” Hart will say, reported the Australian Associated Press. “If the world does not rapidly phase out coal, climate change will wreak havoc right across the …