: Global warming at its dangerous peak, must control to save humanity, says UN #IndiaNEWS #International New York: The United Nations panel on climate change told the world Monday that global warming

@newsMNC

Posted in: #IndiaNEWS

Global warming at its dangerous peak, must control to save humanity, says UN #IndiaNEWS #International
New York: The United Nations panel on climate change told the world Monday that global warming was dangerously close to being out of control. It also said that humans were ‘unequivocally’ to blame for this global warming. Already, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if not centuries. This information was shared in a report from the scientists of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In other words, the deadly heat waves, gargantuan hurricanes and other weather extremes that are already happening will only become more severe.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the report as a ‘code red for humanity’. “The alarm bells are deafening,� Guterres said in a statement. “This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet,� he added.
Drawing on more than 14,000 scientific studies, the IPCC report gives the most comprehensive and detailed picture yet of how climate change is altering the natural world – and what could still be ahead.
Unless immediate, rapid and large-scale action is taken to reduce emissions, the report says, the average global temperature is likely to reach or cross the 1. 5-degree Celsius (2. 7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming threshold within 20 years.
The pledges to cut emissions made so far are nowhere near enough to start reducing level of greenhouse gases – mostly carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning fossil fuels – accumulated in the atmosphere.
Wake-up Call
Governments and campaigners reacted to the findings with alarm. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped the report would be ‘a wake-up call for the world to take action now, before we meet in Glasgow’.
The report says emissions ‘unequivocally caused by human activities’ have already pushed the average global temperature up 1. 1C from its pre-industrial average – and would have raised it 0. 5C further without the tempering effect of pollution in the atmosphere.
That means that, even as societies move away from fossil fuels, temperatures will be pushed up again by the loss of the airborne pollutants that come with them and currently reflect away some of the sun’s heat.
A rise of 1. 5C is generally seen as the most that humanity could cope with without suffering widespread economic and social upheaval.
Also read: Indian monsoon seasons to become stronger, more chaotic due to global warming: Study
The 1. 1C global warming already recorded has been enough to unleash disastrous weather. This year, heat waves killed hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and smashed records around the world.

Latest stock market news Twitter alternate of India

Flash it Bury this

0 Reactions   React

Replies (0)

Login to post a comment!