The Climate Crisis In The 2010s Summarized
The climate crisis explained, in 7 numbers
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, Lydia O’Connor, January 2, 2020 (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
“…In the past decade, the climate crisis, and its fatal consequences, deepened further…[These seven figures] show just how dire the climate situation grew…1-The past five years were the hottest ever recorded on the planet…[2014 through 2018] had record-breaking temperatures…[More than a quarter-million people may die each year as a result of climate change in the decades to come…2-Four of the five largest wildfires in California history happened this decade…3-Six Category 5 hurricanes tore through the Atlantic region in the past four years…
4-Arctic sea ice cover dropped about 13 percent…5-Floods with a 0.1 percent chance of happening in any given year became a frequent occurrence…6-There were more than 100 climate disasters in the billion-dollar category, double that of the decade before…[And, 7-Global carbon emissions quadrupled since 1960… reached a record high in 2018…[and set a new record in 2019 with] more than 40.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide…The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned last fall that humanity has just under a decade to get climate change under control…” click here for more
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