“UN Climate Change Report Delivers Stark Warnings”
By: Karl Ritter
Source: Huffington
Post
On
Sunday, the United Nation’s panel on climate science stated that, “Climate
change is happening, it’s almost entirely man’s fault and limiting its impacts
may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century” (1). In
simpler words, climate is changing due to human actions. Emissions, such a
burning of fossil fuels have to drop to zero by the end if the twenty first
century, in order for the world to have a chance of keeping its temperature
rise below dangerous levels. If this continues, technology will have to be
completely remade into renewable sources, so it can power homes, cars, and
industries without harming the environment. Scientists are saying that the
effects caused by this climate changes are irreversible. Some effects are
rising sea levels, warmer and more acidic ocean, melting glaciers and Arctic
sea ice and more frequent and intense heat waves. “All we need is the will to
change, which we trust will be motivated by knowledge and an understanding of
the science of climate change” (1). With the will to change, there is a chance
that humans can overcome this problem. At the moment, the American public is
not convinced. They do not believe that such a disaster could happen due to
human actions. Research by Pew Research showed that 67% of Americans believe global
warming is occurring, and only the rest believe that climate changes are
happening due to human actions.
As said
before, the world only needs the will to change. With the human force helping
the environment and not harming it, it is possible to stop Earth from facing
more “irreversible” effects.
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