Temperature, extreme heat and frost, and environmental disasters are expected to increase in frequency, duration, and magnitude as the world warms, predicted a major new scientific report.
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Climate change is now an existential health problem overshadowing all others, say scientists in a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) – a precursor to the world’s largest and most comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet.
Unprecedented changes in the Earth’s climate have been recorded in every region and the world is currently 1.09°C warmer than in the second half of the 19th century. The past five years have been the hottest on record since 1850.
The report links climate change with changing weather patterns, intensifying water cycles, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, thawing of permafrost, and increasing exposure to extreme heat.
“The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres in a statement in response to the report. “Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.”
The report, ‘Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis’, was written by 234 scientists who are members of the IPCC Working Group I, and it was approved on Friday by 195 member governments of the IPCC.
The landmark report is the first major review of the science of climate change since 2013, and the first instalment of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report, due to be released in 2022.
“It has been clear for decades that the Earth’s climate is changing, and the role of human influence on the climate system is undisputed,” said Valérie Masson-Delmotte, IPCC Working Group I co-chairperson, in a press release.
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