A new UN report on how climate change harms people and the environment reads like an atlas of human and planetary suffering — but some of the risks can still be prevented or lessened with prompt action.
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. 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.
The panel of more than 200 scientists puts out a series of these massive reports every five to seven years, with this one, the second of the series, devoted to how climate change affects people and the planet. Last August the science panel published a report on the latest climate science and projections for future warming, branded “code red” by the United Nations.
“Every bit of warming matters. The longer you wait ... the more you will pay later,” said report co-chair Hans-Otto Poertner of Germany told the AP in an interview. 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. Others are still warnings about future woes fast approaching.
If the world warms just another nine-tenths of a degree Celsius from now , the amount of land burned by wildfires globally will increase by 35%, the report says.
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