Americans warned: 12 years left before dangerous climate change

The Earth is heading inexorably toward facing the full ravages of climate change - extreme drought, food shortages and deadly floods - unless there is an "unprecedented" effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a new United Nations report warns.

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According to scientists, the surface of the planet has already warmed up to 1 degrees Celsius, and with seeming insignificance, it carries a serious climate threat. Ahead of the catastrophic increase in 1,5 degrees Celsius between 2030 and 2052 years, writes New York Post.

"There will be many more problems if we exceed 1,5 degrees Celsius of global warming, including more heat waves and summer heat, rising sea levels and, in many parts of the world, worsening droughts and extreme rainfall," says Andrew King , research fellow in climate science at the University of Melbourne.

Shocking statistics were published on Monday in the report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which warned us that we must implement “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” in order to save our planet.

Nobel laureates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that in order to have at least 50 / 50 chances to stop warming at the level of 1,5 degrees, the world must become “carbon neutral” by 2050. Any additional emissions of carbon dioxide will require the removal of harmful formations from the air.

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If nothing is done, the Earth’s temperature may rise by 3 degrees Celsius, leading to even more frequent and extreme droughts, an increase in the number and scale of deadly hurricanes, and the disappearance of coral reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, to 90.

Countries in the southern hemisphere will face the most serious consequences.

“The next few years are probably the most important in human history,” IPCC co-chair Debra Roberts, head of environmental planning and climate protection in South Africa, told Agence France-Presse.

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Efforts to curb climate change must also go beyond the 2015 Paris Agreement, reached by 197 countries—a pact President Trump withdrew the United States from in June 2017.

“The window to keep global warming below 1,5 degrees Celsius is quickly ending, and the current emissions commitments made by signatories to the Paris Agreement do not bring us any closer to achieving that goal,” King said.

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Staying within 1.5 instead of rising to 2 degrees Celsius will cause the global water level in the oceans to increase by 2100 an inch less by 3,9, which will reduce flooding. It will also reduce the loss and extinction of species and reduce the impact on various ecosystems.

“There were doubts that we would be able to distinguish the impact determined at 1,5 degrees from that at 2, but even scientists were surprised to see how big the difference would be and how great the benefits of limiting global warming would be,” said Thelma Krueg. Vice-Chairman of the IPCC. “And now more than ever, we know how much difference even a tiny increase in temperature makes.”

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