Extreme events related to sea level that previously occurred once every 100 years could occur each year at the end of this century “, recalls the IPCC, while Raquel Montón (Greenpeace) recalls that” although in 2013 it was evaluated that it was “Very unlikely” that the circulation of the southern Atlantic capsize will undergo an abrupt transition or collapse in the controlled 21st century, now there is only “medium confidence” that there will not be an abrupt collapse before 2100 ” Bangladesh Email List.
Intimately linked to this phenomenon is the degradation of the Arctic, which will continue to warm more than twice as fast as the planet’s average, amplifying “the melting of permafrost and the loss of seasonal snow, land ice and Arctic sea ice”, so according to scientists, it is likely that this area of the globe is free of sea ice, “at least once before 2050”.
Reactions to the IPCC report have not been long in coming and António Guterres, UN Secretary General, has defined the scientists’ conclusions as “a red code for humanity”, another direct statement, because, in his opinion, “the alarm bells are deafening and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation are suffocating our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk ”.
And the first event in which realistic change policies that mitigate the effects described in the UN experts’ document should be embodied is the World Climate Summit that will take place next November in Glasgow. Precisely, Alok Sharma, President of this COP26, has reminded “each country, government, company and part of society that the next decade is decisive: follow science and assume your responsibility to keep alive the objective of reducing the temperature 1.5 degree global ”. On the Spanish side, Teresa Ribera, Third Vice President of the Government, recognized that the IPCC report “is an alarm signal from scientists that we cannot afford to ignore, so we cannot delay the real and rapid reduction of emissions, no only with the horizon of 2050, but also for 2030 ”.
Activist leader Greta Thunberg also expressed her position on social networks, for whom the UN report “contains no surprises, because it confirms what we already know from thousands of previous studies: that we are in an emergency.” However, the spokesperson and visible head of the Climate Marches that took thousands of young people to the streets considers that “worse consequences can still be avoided, but only if we do not continue as we have done before, without treating the crisis as a crisis” socialposts.
