UN: Code Red Global Climate Change Emergency Declared
August 12, 2021
(NTEB) FROM NBC NEWS: Climate change is changing Earth in ways that are “unprecedented” in thousands of years — and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of years — according to a blistering report released Monday by the United Nations.
The sobering assessment also found that some changes that are already playing out, such as warming oceans and rising sea levels, are “irreversible for centuries to millennia.”
U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL ANTÓNIO GUTERRES CALLED THE FINDINGS A “CODE RED FOR HUMANITY,” ADDING THAT THE “ALARM BELLS ARE DEAFENING, AND THE EVIDENCE IS IRREFUTABLE.”
The report is the most comprehensive assessment from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2013 and provides the strongest case yet for human-caused global warming, saying it’s “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.”
The report also found that climate change is intensifying, occurring at an accelerated pace and is already affecting every region of the planet.
“IT HAS BEEN CLEAR FOR DECADES THAT THE EARTH’S CLIMATE IS CHANGING, AND THE ROLE OF HUMAN INFLUENCE ON THE CLIMATE SYSTEM IS UNDISPUTED,” VALÉRIE MASSON-DELMOTTE, CO-CHAIR OF THE IPCC’S WORKING GROUP I, SAID IN A STATEMENT.
Story by Geoffrey Grider for Now The End Begins
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