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Climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet, bringing with it increases in rainfall, flooding, drought, heatwaves, and sealevels that are already having significant implications for economies around the world.
These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, ocean acidification, tropical forest loss, population, GDP, water use, and transportation, have reached the point past natural variation, showing indisputably that the Earth is in a different state than before. .
To limit globalwarming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C °C warming (based on an average of the last 10 years) make clear is a higher than desirable goal. The challenge. gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year).
Taking immediate action to slash emissions towards net zero by 2050 could make a monumental difference to the level, frequency, and breadth of growing climate impacts, the scientists emphasise. The stark fact is that if we keep warming to 1.5?C C we are still facing half a metre of sealevelrise.
The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that globalwarming might bring. tipping point.
The survey results reflect a level of skepticism that governments will get their act together and crack down on emissions. climate summit in Paris in 2015, officials agreed to limit globalwarming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees C — a goal that island nations imperiled by sea-levelrise said was essential to their survival.
In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-levelrise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep globalwarming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7°F). Now, those promises must be acted upon.
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National Academy of Sciences that explicitly warned of the risks human-induced globalwarming could pose to earth’s weather and “ecological balances,” the U.S.-based In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S.
Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made globalwarming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. The UCSUSA points out that “Consequences of globalwarming include drought, sealevelrise, flooding, extreme weather, and species loss.
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