Climate report: Scientists politely urge, 'act now, idiots'
Climate report: Scientists politely urge, 'act now, idiots'
Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C states that the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C.
Staying below 1.5C will require "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society".
It will be hugely expensive, the report says, but the window of opportunity is not yet closed.
After three years of research and a week of haggling between scientists and government officials at a meeting in South Korea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a special report on the impact of global warming of 1.5C...
What happens if we don't act?
The researchers say that if we fail to keep temperatures below 1.5C, we are in for some significant and dangerous changes to our world.
You can kiss coral reefs good-bye, as the report says they would be essentially 100% wiped out at 2 degrees of warming.
Global sea-level will rise around 10 centimetres more if we let warming go to 2C, That may not sound like much but keeping to 1.5C means that 10 million fewer people would be exposed to the risks of flooding.
There are also significant impacts on ocean temperatures and acidity, and the ability to grow crops like rice, maize and wheat.
"We are already in the danger zone at one degree of warming," said Kaisa Kosonen from Greenpeace.
"Both poles are melting at an accelerated rate; ancient trees that have been there for hundreds of years are suddenly dying; and the summer we've just experienced - basically, the whole world was on fire." - FULL ARTICLE HERE.
IPCC Special Report on 1.5ºC
http://www.realclimate.org/?p=21896
Responding to climate change is far more like a marathon than a sprint.
The IPCC 1.5ºC Special report ( #SR15) has been released:
Full REALCLIMATE article HERE
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Deadly heat waves to hit India, Pakistan every year because of climate change - UN report
A heat wave like the one in 2015 in India which killed nearly 2,500 people may become an annual occurrence in India and Pakistan, a damning UN report on the threats of climate change claims.
According to the report published on Monday, if world temperatures do indeed rise by two degrees Celsius, India could see deadly heat waves increase in frequency and become an annual condition.
The much-anticipated ‘1.5 Health Report’ was released on Monday in South Korea by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body set up in 1988, and written by 91 authors from 40 different countries.