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The Intergovernmental Panel on global climate change predicts an extra rise of between 1.4°C and 5.8°C by the top of the century. Climate change could therefore rather be the knock-out punch for several species which are already under stress from overfishing and habitat loss. A study has ...
Scientists "don’t think people realize how little time we have left,” to stop irreversible and disastrous changes to Earth’s climate systems. But there is hope.
Delaying ratcheting of ambition to beyond 2030 could still limit end-of-century temperature change to below 1.5 °C but would result in higher temperature overshoot over many decades. Ratcheting near-term ambition could also facilitate faster transitions to net-zero emissions systems, especially in ma...
Protecting health against the effects of climate change will be next year's theme for World Health Day (7 April 2008) and WHO's 60th anniversary celebrations. Carlos Corvalan talks about WHO's work with countries to help them tackle those effects and how climate change affects people's health...
Amen. This change would be good for taxpayers and good for the environment. When I issued myEighteenth Theorem of Government, I was mostly thinking about thepreening nitwits in the British royal familyand thehypocrites in who go to Davos. ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that climate change would be the cause of 250,000 more deaths between 2030 and 2050 on account of heat stress, malnutrition and many other ailments that are influenced by temperature and rainfall. Furthermore, the effects of climate change on people...
Scientists estimate that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would reduce the odds of initiating the most dangerous and irreversible effects of climate change. While a number of analytic perspectives explain how greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions would need to evolve to achieve a 1.5-degree pathway,...
Many reports and studies say that we only have about 20 to 30 years before global warming becomes irreversible. But some scientists warn that this time could also be significantly shorter. We have lost countless wildlife species due to ongoing climate change, and we are seeing more and more ...
So, no, the world will not end in 10 years due to climate change. But the longer action is delayed, the more dire the consequences will be and the more likely it is that the changes will be irreversible. IPCC Special Report The Skeptical Science website has compiled an exhaustive list...