World’s Ice And Oceans Under Dire Threat, Shocking UN Report Warns
Hundreds of millions of people in coastal areas would be threatened if climate change continues unabated, the UN’s climate body warned.www.huffpost.com/…
Ice sheets are melting, glaciers are shrinking and the planet’s oceans are changing in “unprecedented” ways, according to a shocking new report the United Nations released Wednesday, the latest confirmation that climate change is already wreaking havoc around the globe.
The findings, published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, the leading U.N. body studying human-caused global warming, issue stark warnings for hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying or coastal areas and come amid a renewed call from scientists who say the planet is quickly running out of time to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.
At a news conference Wednesday in Monaco, IPCC Vice Chair Ko Barrett said the world’s oceans have acted “like a sponge, absorbing carbon dioxide and heat to regulate the temperature.”
“But it can’t keep up,” she said. “These changes show that the world’s ocean and cryosphere have been taking the heat from climate change for decades; the consequences for nature and humanity are sweeping and severe.”
“What is at stake,” she said, “is the health of ecosystems, wildlife and importantly the world we leave for our children.”
The report was written by more than 100 scientists from 30-plus countries, and is the third such paper published by the IPCC over the past year (an August report focused on protecting land, and one last October found time was rapidly running out to avoid catastrophic warming).
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The IPCC has been ringing its warning bells loudly for years. In last year’s October report, the agency warned that the world was rapidly running out of time to address climate change and keep the planet from warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Any warming beyond that benchmark, researchers say, would unleash the worst impacts of the phenomenon. At the time, the chair of the body called the report “one of the most important” ever produced by the IPCC.
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