Some of these climate change harms have been warned about for years, even decades, and have become reality, now written in the past and present tenses. Jungle stands next to an area that was burnt due to wildfires near Porto Velho, Brazil, Aug. If warming exceeds a few more tenths of a degree, it could lead to some areas becoming uninhabitable, including some small islands, said report co-author Adelle Thomas of the University of Bahamas and Climate Analytics.Īnd eventually in some places it will become too hot for people to work outdoor, which will be a problem for raising crops, said report co-author Rachel Bezner Kerr of Cornell University. More people will be forced out of their homes from weather disasters, especially flooding, sea level rise and tropical cyclones. the more you will pay later," said report co-chair Hans-Otto Poertner of Germany told the AP in an interview.īy 2050, a billion people will face coastal flooding risk from rising seas, the report says. "More of it will get really bad much sooner than we thought before."
Since the last version of this impacts panel's report in 2014, "all the risks are coming at us faster than we thought before," said report co-author Maarten van Aalst, a climate scientist for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, mentioning floods, droughts and storms. Houses lay between the Senegal river at the top, and the Atlantic Ocean beach that has been affected by erosion in Saint Louis, Senegal, Nov. Just how many people die depends on how much heat-trapping gas from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas gets spewed into the air and how the world adapts to an ever-hotter world, scientists say.
More people are going to die each year from heat waves, diseases, extreme weather, air pollution and starvation because of global warming, the report says. And the world’s poor are being hit by far the hardest, it says. Large numbers of people are being displaced by worsening weather extremes. But if temperatures increase nearly 2 more degrees Celsius from now (3.4 degrees Fahrenheit) they would feel five times the floods, storms, drought and heat waves, according to the collection of scientists at the IPCC.Īlready at least 3.3 billion people's daily lives "are highly vulnerable to climate change” and 15 times more likely to die from extreme weather, the report says. Today’s children who may still be alive in the year 2100 are going to experience four times more climate extremes than they do now even with only a few more tenths of a degree of warming over today's heat. Roots are photographed near the old village of Aceredo, northwestern Spain, Feb. Delaying cuts in heat-trapping carbon emissions and waiting on adapting to warming's impacts, it warns, "will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all." "The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health," says the major report designed to guide world leaders in their efforts to curb climate change. The IPCC report said Monday if human-caused global warming isn’t limited to just another couple tenths of a degree, an Earth now struck regularly by deadly heat, fires, floods and drought in future decades will degrade in 127 ways with some being "potentially irreversible." The world and its leaders were confronted Monday by a horrifying "atlas of human suffering" as a new science report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) showed that despite weather being extreme now, climate change is about to get so much worse, likely leading to a world that is sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an "unavoidable" increase in risks.
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