Whereas the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Monday, October 8, 2018, a report in response to an invitation from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Whereas the IPCC report was written by 91 authors and review editors from 40 countries, including the United States, and was reviewed by thousands of expert and government reviewers from around the world; Whereas the IPCC report found that increases in global temperature above preindustrial levels are overwhelmingly the result of anthropogenic sources of atmospheric carbon and other greenhouse gases; Whereas the IPCC report found that the last 50-year period in the Northern Hemisphere has the warmest average temperature of any 50-year period in 500 years; Whereas the IPCC report found that Earth is already seeing the consequences of 1 degree Celsius warming above preindustrial levels in the form of extreme weather, rising sea levels, longer and more severe droughts, diminishing Arctic sea ice, and diminished glacial and snow cover, among other impacts; Whereas the IPCC report found that as the global temperature continues to warm, the impacts of a warming atmosphere increase in severity; Whereas the report found that the difference between warming of 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius is substantial, and that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is affordable, feasible, and necessary to protecting people from the worst impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, drought, floods, and increased poverty and instability; Whereas the IPCC report found that, compared to warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius, warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius could result in 10 centimeters more global sea level rise and substantially more summers without Arctic sea ice; Whereas the IPCC report found that, compared to warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius, warming at or above 2 degrees could worsen impacts to terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems, and increase the risk of species loss and extinctions