#codeRed‘Code Red For Humanity’: Humans Driving ‘Unprecedented’ Climate Change, U.N. Report Findshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/08/09/code-red-for-humanity-humans-driving-unprecedented-climate-change-un-report-finds/?sh=2635875a5d93Global temperatures will likely exceed the 1.5C limit set by the Paris climate agreement within the next 20 years unless swift and drastic action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a comprehensive assessment of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading authority on the subject.
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are also at the highest point in 2 million years, the report said, with agriculture and fossil fuels driving levels of nitrous oxide and methane to 800,000-year highs.
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Even in best case scenarios, some of the changes—including sea level rise—are irreversible for millennia.