Activists gather outside the the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dressed as scientists in lab coats on one side of a giant 12 meter seesaw to give a visual image of the IPCC report’s key finding that there is 95% scientific certainty that humans cause climate change yesterday in Stockholm
Stockholm: The world’s leading climate scientists have set out in detail for the first time how much more carbon dioxide humans can pour into the atmosphere without triggering dangerous levels of climate change — and concluded that more than half of that global allowance has been used up.
If people continue to emit greenhouse gases at current rates, the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere could mean that within two to three decades the world will face nearly inevitable warming of more than 2C, resulting in rising sea levels, heatwaves, droughts and more extreme weather.
This calculation of the world’ “carbon budget” is one of the most striking findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which yesterday produced a comprehensive assessment of our knowledge of climate change after their four-day meeting.
