If global industry doesn’t change soon, the world could face more and more extreme weather conditions.
on the current climate crisis has made news this week for offering a bleak picture of the state of global climate change, especially poignant while major fires and heat waves blanket California, Greece, and Siberia. The world could look very different, with more and more extreme weather and heat effects, unless we change global industry very soon.
The report says it’s “very likely” that precipitation events like monsoon rains will continue to increase, with a rate of 7% more daily precipitation events for each degree of climate change—a proportional increase as the Earth grows warmer. In some scenarios where the climate changes just 1.0 or 1.8° Celsius, that may seem like not such a big deal. But without changes to global emissions, our temperature could increase 5° Celsius or more.
“The last time global surface temperature was sustained at or above 2.5°C higher than 1850–1900 was over 3 million years ago,” the report explains. Permafrost thaw alters the arctic climate as well as releasing trapped greenhouse gases that were previously held in frozen “carbon sink” conditions.The oceans and land masses both absorb some amount of carbon, which has started to lead to the acidification of the oceans, for example. Acidificationsealife’s access to building blocks like calcium carbonate, killing off shelled organisms.
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