'Code red for humanity': UN releases report on catastrophic climate change

Thousands of people were evacuated due to devastating fires in Greece, almost 200 died during floods in Western Germany, hundreds became victims of abnormal heat in Canada, a city in the south of the Czech Republic was almost destroyed by the first tornado in the history of the country - all this is news in recent months. Extreme weather events are directly related to climate change. In a new report, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly states that the planet continues to warm and it is necessary to stop this process before it becomes irreversible. He writes about it "Present Tense".

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“There are too many pages in these reports and no one will read them, but you can read the headlines - forest fires raging in Greece and Turkey, heat in California and British Columbia, more fires in Siberia, and floods in Germany and China. Everywhere you look, climate disaster is unfolding, says Greenpeace executive director John Sowan. “This report simply explains what is happening scientifically and says that man is to blame.”

Where do weather anomalies come from?

The heating of the planet leads to disruptions in the established system of circulation of water and air. These disruptions are occurring with increasing frequency, and with them record droughts, frosts, hurricanes, wildfires and floods.

Even 10 years ago, scientists believed that if global warming could be limited to 1,5 degrees Celsius, irreversible consequences for the planet could be prevented. Models of that time did not predict significant climate change until the beginning of the XXII century.

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The Paris Climate Agreement took these numbers into account. The new report says there is much less time left.

“The bottom line is that unless we start cutting greenhouse gas emissions at scale immediately, we won't be able to stop warming at 1,5 degrees. The report shows that over the next 20 years, average temperatures will be one and a half degrees or more higher than pre-industrial times,” says Intergovernmental Panel member Co Barrett.

And even that is not all. Heating the planet by 2 degrees is fraught with disastrous consequences. If in coastal areas the increase in temperatures will lead to flooding, then the rest will face an abnormal heat, and with it fires and a lack of drinking water.

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“This report goes without saying about the consequences of rising greenhouse gas emissions and the consequences that await us depending on the choices we make over the next decade,” said report co-author Kim Cobb.

The past decade has already become the hottest in the last 125 thousand years, and man is to blame for this. The influence of natural causes, for example, the Sun and volcanoes, according to scientists, is close to zero. And even if emissions are sharply reduced, glaciers and oceans will not recover immediately, which means humanity will face even more fires and floods.

This report is "the red code for humanity," said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

“The report should sound the death knell for coal and fossil fuels before they destroy our planet,” he added.

“At no time did we treat this crisis as a real crisis. Of course, the media writes that weather anomalies are the consequences of climate change, but we must remember that these are only symptoms. We don’t talk about the root cause, what contributes to these events, and the people who are to blame are not held accountable,” says climate activist Greta Thunberg.

The new report has already been approved by the authorities of 195 countries. The next climate summit will be held in Scotland in early November. And there politicians will have to make decisions about what needs to be done before the catastrophe has yet arrived.

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