Sea levels could rise by 1 metre by 2100, new UN report warns | CBC News
Days after millions of young people demanded an end to the
fossil fuel era at protests around the world, a new report by a
UN-backed panel of experts found radical action may yet avert some of
the worst possible outcomes of global warming.
fossil fuel era at protests around the world, a new report by a
UN-backed panel of experts found radical action may yet avert some of
the worst possible outcomes of global warming.
But the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate was
clear that allowing carbon emissions to continue their upward path
would upset the balance of the great geophysical systems governing
oceans and the frozen regions of the Earth so profoundly that nobody
would escape untouched.
“We are in a race between two factors,
one is the capacity of humans and ecosystems to adapt, the other is the
speed of impact of climate change. This report … indicates we may be
losing in this race. We need to take immediate and drastic action to cut
emissions right now,” IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said at the presentation
of the report in Monaco.