The dramatic report warned that the planet is currently heading to warm by 3C

News24xx.com -  Tragic and horor for all people in the world, because a landmark report by the UN has warned that the world has just 12 years to halt global warming before the planet is plunged into extreme heat, drought and poverty.

The scientists found to preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people. However, they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge.

The dramatic report warned that the planet is currently heading to warm by 3C and keeping warming to less than 1.5C as laid out in the Paris agreement will require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.

The report that backed by the United Nations, says the scale of the challenge is vast and will be expensive to carry out.

To illustrate how far off this is, CO2 levels rose about 3 per cent a year between 2000 and 2013, and by about 0.4 per cent a year between 2013 and 2016.

Impacts of climate change, from droughts to rising seas, will be less extreme if temperature rises are curbed at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels than if they climb to 2C.

As well as a radical change in diet – because meat production produces more CO2 than growing vegetables – a switch to electric cars and extensive planting of forests to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere will be needed.

We will also need to stop burning fossil fuels to generate power, and no longer use gas boilers to heat homes.

Overall, the Earth has to reduce the amount of CO2 produced each year by 45 per cent by 2030 – and reduce CO2 production to zero by 2050.

The world will also have to develop technology to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and also allocate more land to growing crops for fuel.

Scientists say this will require an annual average investment in the energy system of around USD 2.4 trillion (£1.8 trillion) between 2016 and 2035.

 

 

 

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