Weather-related disasters have increased fivefold over the last 50 years and are killing 115 people per day on average – and the fallout is poised to worsen, according to a new report from the United Nations released Tuesday in Geneva.
Parts of the world are lurching from drought to deluge in a summer of extreme weather likely goosed by human-caused climate change. Fossil fuel emission rates are now above pre-pandemic levels after a temporary drop due to lockdowns.
"There is nothing natural about the new scale of these disasters. They are the price of humanity’s fossil fuel addiction."Weather-related disasters have increased fivefold over the last 50 years and are killing 115 people per day on average – and the fallout is poised to worsen.Fossil fuel emission rates are now above pre-pandemic levels after a temporary drop due to lockdowns.
There is a 48% chance that, during at least one year in the next 5 years, the annual mean temperature will temporarily be 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the 1850-1900 average.As global warming increases, “tipping points” in the climate system cannot be ruled out, the report warned. Tipping points include melting of the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and the drying of the Amazon rainforest, among others.
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