Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 21:58:34 GMT -5
The warning was issued several years ago: if we do not take care of our planet, everything around us will become extinct and we will enter a crisis, a fact that is gradually occurring.
Time has shown that humans are not doing enough to conserve the planet; on the contrary, more and more ecosystems are being affected due to our negative impact.
Along these lines, a recently presented study shows that sea level could rise by more than two meters by the end of the century if carbon emissions continue uncontrolled, this will result in the flooding of New York and Shanghai, therefore more than 187 million people will have to be displaced.
In addition, it also says that sea level France Mobile Number List may rise much faster than previously estimated due to the acceleration of melting of the ice sheets in both Greenland and Antarctica.
Sea levels rising faster than expected
In the study published in the journal Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences, international researchers say that in the worst-case scenario, in which global temperatures rise by 5 degrees Celsius by the year 2100, sea level could rise by more of two meters in the same period, the double limit described in the latest report by the UN climate science panel. Such a situation would be “catastrophic,” the study authors warn.
Sea levels rising faster than expected
According to the lead author of the study and also a professor of physical geography at the University of Bristol, Jonathan Bamber, this fact “is actually quite grim. Two meters is not a good scenario.”
For Bamber, the mass displacement of people in low-lying coastal areas would likely cause serious social unrest. It would also pose an “existential threat” to small island nations in the Pacific, which would become virtually uninhabitable.
If the pace of emissions continues at the same rate, approximately 1.79 million square kilometers, an area more than three times the size of California, would be lost to the sea.
This would put 187 million people at risk, 2.5% of the total population in the world. However, the authors recognize that the possibility of a worst-case scenario could be small, around 5%, they say it should not be discounted.