The World’s New Energy Need Is Officially Urgent
'Worst is yet to come': Disastrous future ahead for millions worldwide due to climate change, report warns
Doyle Rice, June 23, 2021 (USA Today)
Millions of people worldwide are in for a disastrous future of hunger, drought and disease, according to a draft report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was leaked to the media this week…[The climate crisis] will ‘fundamentally reshape life on Earth’ in the coming decades…[and there is] a series of thresholds beyond which recovery from climate breakdown may become impossible…
Species extinction, more widespread disease, unlivable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas – these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and are bound to become evident in the decades ahead…The IPCC’s 4,000-page draft report, scheduled for official release next year, offers the most comprehensive rundown to date of the impacts of climate change on our planet and our species…
…[The cause is] burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal, which release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the Earth's atmosphere. Those greenhouse gases have caused our atmosphere to warm to levels that scientists say cannot be due to natural causes…[The report warns of potentially ‘irreversible consequences’ that will result in] multiple climate calamities at once: drought, heatwaves, cyclones, wildfires and flooding…” click here for more
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