The latest climate change report from the United Nations has revealed a startling revelation right out of the biblical tale of the apocalypse, a “code red for humanity,” as billions of animal and plant species face extinction.
End of the world: UN report foresees parts of planet as uninhabitable, leading to mass extinction
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a study backed by the United Nations, alleges climate change will soon make parts of planet Earth completely uninhabitable.
195 IPCC governments approved the report by IPCC Working Group II, The Ecologist reported.
If the grim predictions revealed by the study are accurate, then it will mean that billions of species of plants and animals are likely to become extinct, the Express reported.
The released and finalized second part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability report was released on April 4 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a study backed by the United Nations, is being called a “dire warning about the consequences of inaction” on climate change.
UN chief: “On a fast track to climate disaster”
In a video speech, Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres warned that climate change caused by human activities is threatening a large-scale extinction of billions of animals and plant species.”
“The jury has reached a verdict, and it is damning,” Guterres said. “This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is a litany of broken climate promises.”
“It is a file of shame, cataloging the empty pledges that put us on track for an unlivable world,” Guterres added. “We are on a fast track to climate disaster.”
Human and animal life at risk
“Human-induced climate change, including more frequent and intense extreme events, has caused widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people, beyond natural climate variability,” the report stated.
The IPCC is urging companies to take action to limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2030.
However, plant and animal life are not the only living things at risk. Human life is also in the crosshairs.
“Human-induced climate change, including more frequent and intense extreme events, has caused widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages to nature and people, beyond natural climate variability,” the report stated.
“With climate change, some parts of the planet will become uninhabitable,” said German scientist Hans-Otto Pörtner, who is the co-chair of Working Group II, USA Today reported.
António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, called the findings of the report “an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” while warning that “delay means death.”
2021 report: “A code red for humanity”
A similar dire report was issued by the IPCC in 2021, finding that the planet has warmed 1.1°C higher than pre-industrial levels, the BBC reported.
The 2021 report was the first review since 2013. In a statement, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the 1.5-degree threshold is “perilously close.” He called the findings “a code red for humanity.”
According to the report, the world is on track to exceed 1.5°C by 2030 and reach +2° C warming between 2050-2060.
The report found the following key events:
– The past five years have been the warmest on record since 1850.
– The Global surface temperature was 1.09C higher in the 10 years between 2011-2020 than between the 50 years of 1850-1900.
-The rate of sea-level rise in recent years has nearly tripled compared to 1901 to 1971.
