UN Reports Warn of Risks to Earth’s Ice
Climate · First reported 2 Nov, 18:04 · Updated 18:19
Two UN reports warn that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming target could cause large-scale, in some cases irreversible harm to Earth’s ice. The supplied coverage also notes that the centre report excerpt gives only a brief description of that warning.
- The reports warn that passing 1.5°C of warming could cause large-scale and sometimes irreversible impacts on Earth’s ice, including glaciers, sea ice and permafrost.
- The Dawn report says global warming has reached 1.37°C above pre-industrial levels and cites a possible 2030 date for exceeding 1.5°C.
- The reports’ warning concerns risks including rising seas, flooding and water shortages; the Dawn report says returning to 1.5°C or below by 2100 remains possible with sufficient political ambition and urgency.
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- Warming reported
- 1.37°C above pre-industrial levels
- Possible 1.5°C threshold timing
- Around 2030, according to the European Copernicus network as cited in the report
- Swiss glacier mass loss
- 20 percent
- Possible sea-level rise by 2150 in the stated scenario
- Up to five centimetres a year
- Recovery time cited
- Decades to centuries
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