The climate disaster is here.
Earth is already becoming unlivable.
Will governments act to
stop this disaster from getting worse?
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Heatwaves
Earth’s atmosphere, now saturated with emissions from
human activity, is trapping warmth and leading to more frequent periods of
extreme heat
Floods
Earth’s hotter climate is causing the atmosphere to hold
more water, then releasing the water in the form of extreme precipitation
events
Wildfires
Earth’s hotter atmosphere soaks up water from the earth,
drying out trees and tinder that amplify the severity of wildfires
Crop failure
Unpredictable weather, like too much or too little
rainfall, decreases the quantity and quality of crop yields
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There’s a high chance we will get to 1.5C in the next
decade,” said Joeri Rogelj, a climate scientist at Imperial College London.
Every decision – every oil drilling lease, every acre of
the Amazon rainforest torched for livestock pasture, every new gas-guzzling SUV
that rolls onto the road – will decide how far we tumble down the hill. In
Glasgow, governments will be challenged to show they will fight every fraction
of temperature rise, or else, in the words of Greta Thunberg, this pivotal
gathering is at risk of being dismissed as “blah, blah, blah”.
“We’ve run down the clock but it’s never too late,” said
Rogelj. “1.7C is better than 1.9C, which is better than 3C.
Cutting emissions tomorrow is better than the day after,
because we can always avoid worse happening.
The action is far too slow at the moment, but we can
still act.”
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