"It's here. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it." Prof. Kimberly Nicholas Today marks the release of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report. Professor Nicholas sums up the results nicely in her quote above. But, what does this mean for the average reader? There are several takeaways from the IPCC Report released today. First, the report confirms that it is "unequivocal that human activity is what is contributing the most to warming the planet (a