Thunberg: 'Massive public pressure' needed to galvanize climate fight

Brussels: Calling for "massive" pressure to fight climate change after Monday's dire report by a UN science panel, activist Greta Thunberg said she plans to go to this year’s global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, after all. The new IPCC report contains no real surprises. It confirms what we already know from thousands previous studies and reports - that we are in an emergency. It’s a solid (but cautious) summary of the current best available science. 1/2

The major U.N. conference will test countries' ambition to limit global warming, which a landmark scientific report on Monday warned was dangerously close to escalating beyond the limits countries agreed on. "I hope that this can be a wake up call, in every possible way," Thunberg said of the report, in an interview with Reuters.