IPCC Climate Change Report: Red Alert for Humanity
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Scientists are seeing changes to the Earth's climate in all its regions and across the entire climate system, reads the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Some of them – such as the progressive rise in sea levels – cannot be stopped over hundreds to thousands of years.
The first part of the latest, sixth consecutive global warming report, which has just been published, has been developed and adopted by 234 authors and authors and 195 governments, based on 14,000 scientific publications from recent years. This in-depth analysis is the biggest update in the climate science field since the 2014 IPCC Report and the landmark Special Report on 1.5 ° of warming.
“Today's IPCC report is a red alert for humanity. The sirens are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and deforestation are choking the planet and putting billions of people in immediate danger. Global warming is affecting every region of the Earth and many changes are becoming irreversible," Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general, said.
"The internationally agreed threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius is dangerously close. The only way to prevent this from being exceeded is to urgently step up our efforts and follow the most ambitious path," he added.
According to the IPCC, it is no longer possible to limit the temperature rise to 1.5 ° C without exceeding this threshold. In the most ambitious emissions pathway, we will hit 1.5 ° C in the fourth decade of the 21st century, then exceed 1.6 ° C, and by the end of the century, the temperature will drop to 1.4 ° C. Currently, however, we are on course at 2.7 ° C to the year 2100.
