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Perhaps most worrying of all, impacts such as sealevelrise, oceanacidification, and permafrost melt are now inevitable and near-irreversible within timespans stretching from hundreds to potentially thousands of years, leaving only their extent open to question.
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As a result, climate change is already affecting every inhabited region on Earth, and impacts such as sealevelrise, oceanacidification, and permafrost melt are inevitable and near-irreversible, leaving only their extent open to question.
In one of these cases, small island states are seeking an advisory opinion that defines countries’ legal requirements for protecting the oceans from harmful climate impacts — such as oceanacidification and sealevelrise – that threaten their very existence.
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350 ppm) that will not cause serious climate disruption, ice sheet destabilisation (leading to accelerating rate of sealevelrise), and oceanacidification that is endangering the marine food chain which provides significant global protein.
The report said we are already observing climatic changes without precedent over hundreds of thousands of years, with some of these irreversible over reasonable timescales, such as oceanacidification and sealevelrises.
Melting glaciers won’t just contribute to sea-levelrise, although that’s a big deal too — they will alter the fabric of daily life for people across the world, who rely on these enormous stores of ice for drinking water and irrigation. “There’s sort of a blending between all of those things, isn’t there?
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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. C we are still facing half a metre of sealevelrise. C, we can avoid a long term three metres of sealevelrise.
A range of climate scenarios have been forecast - but common to all is increased frequency and scale of extreme weather events, more droughts and floods, melting of ice caps and permafrost, rise in sealevels, and oceanicacidification and deoxygenation. Carbon bootprints. There are physical risks.
These indicators, including but not limited to carbon dioxide, methane, oceanacidification, 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. .
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