Heat waves , wildfires , damage from Hurricane Ida and record rain in a single hour in New York. The United States is feeling the impacts of climate change firsthand.
According to Kim Cobb, a scientist at the United Nations, this is the future not only of the richest country in the world, but of the entire planet Earth.
“We don't know what's coming next, but it's going to be bad. We are entering uncharted territory with climate change. The climate we live in will not be the climate we live in now or for decades to come,” he told Yahoo.
Cobb spoke of the UN report on global warming released in August and what is called the code red for humanity: "The worst is yet to come, affecting the lives of our children and grandchildren much more than ours."
Of New York City, which has recorded the highest amount of rain in one day in at least 152 years, the scientist said: “It's just jaw-dropping. These rains were by far a record. It reminds me of the kind of devastating heat waves we saw in the Pacific Northwest earlier this summer.
IPCC predicts global warming more intense than estimated in the latest edition of the report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which considers climate change to be clearly man-made and "unambiguous", makes warmer predictions for the 21st century than it was last published in 2013.
Five scenarios for the future were estimated in the previous edition, and each of them, based on how much carbon emissions are reduced, exceeds the more stringent of the two limits defined in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
At the time, world leaders agreed to try to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above late 19th century levels (first threshold). The world has warmed almost 1.1 degrees Celsius in the last century and a half.
In each scenario, the report said, the world will pass the 1.5-degree Celsius warming mark in the 2030s, sooner than some previous predictions said. According to the data, warming has increased in recent years.
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