The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report said Monday if human-caused global warming isn’t limited to just another couple tenths of a degree, an Earth now struck regularly by deadly heat, fires, floods and drought in future decades will degrade in 127 ways with some being “potentially irreversible.”
The secretary-general of the UN addressed the report as the ‘atlas of human suffering’. The report warns about the pace of climate change, according to the report Mumbai will see severe flooding because of the rise in sea levels and Ahmedabad will see extreme heat waves in the near future. The report warned that the pace of warming is so fast that humans and animals will not be able to adapt to the changes. Growing important crops will be difficult, the production of wheat, pulse and cereal can fall down by about 9% by 2050. The Ganga and the Brahmaputra basins will also become more prone to flooding because of warming.
The first part of this report, which was released in August last year, had said that the global average temperature will see 1. 5 degrees Celsius of warming in the next 20 years from the pre-industrial (1850-1900) level. The panel had called it a “code red for humanity”.
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