Climate Change: A group of 50 eminent scientists have raised the alarm, saying that the planet is warming at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius every decade. In a peer-reviewed paper geared at policymakers, they stated that from 2013 through 2022, “human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade.” The carbon budget will probably run out in a few years, lead author Piers Forster, a physics professor at the University of Leeds, was quoted by AFP as saying. “Even though we are not yet at 1.5C warming, the carbon budget.
IPCC’s Alarming Findings Highlight Urgent Need for Emissions Reduction
According to Forster and colleagues, many of whom were core IPCC contributors, that budget has decreased by half since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN organisation that advises on climate science, gathered information for its most recent benchmark report in 2021. The most recent analysis is set against the backdrop of the IPCC report, which issued a dire warning that global climate change is imminent. The report added a new target not previously stated in six other studies published since 2018 when it was determined that in order to keep under the temperature limit established in Paris, the globe must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2035, as opposed to 2019.
COP28 Summit to Confront Stark Reality of Human-Driven Global Warming
At the crucial COP28 climate summit later this year in Dubai, when a “Global Stocktake” at the UN talks will evaluate progress towards the 2015 Paris Agreement’s temperature goals, world leaders will be confronted with the new statistics. The IPCC studies highlighted human activities as the primary cause of the global warming. Without a doubt, human activities—primarily the generation of greenhouse gases—are to blame for global warming, with the global surface temperature rising by 1.1°C between 2011 and 2020 compared to the period between 1850 and 1900. According to scientists, if we want even a remote chance of keeping below the 1.5C barrier, emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other warming agents—which are primarily produced by burning fossil fuels—must not surpass 250 billion tonnes (Gt). The committee also stated that in order to maintain the Paris temperature goals, CO2 emissions must be reduced by at least 40% by 2030 and completely eliminated by the middle of the century, according to IPCC estimates. According to the assessment, the Earth would warm by at least 2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times if the world continues to use all the fossil fuel-powered infrastructure that is currently in place or that is being considered. Since 2000, temperature rises over land areas have startlingly increased, excluding oceans.
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