Climate Change: We Are Running Out of Time

With stronger storms, rising global temperatures, and sea levels, it is best to think that we are indeed facing rapid climate change.

The world has changed drastically, and natural disasters are becoming more prevalent in the last ten years. The question is, do we still have time to reverse the effects of global warming?

We have come a long way in terms of technology. However, we are still dependent on carbon-emitting energy resources that leave a mark on the environment, known as carbon footprint, which affects global temperatures.

According to a United Nations (UN) report on climate change that harmful carbon emissions from 2010 to 2019 have skyrocketed to levels never seen before in human history.

A new flagship UN report on climate change out Monday indicating that harmful emissions from 2010-2019 were at their highest levels in human history, is proof that the world is on a “fast track” to disaster, António Guterres has warned.
Reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Secretary-General insisted that unless governments everywhere reassess their energy policies, the world will be uninhabitable.

“The world is on a “fast track” to disaster”, António Guterres UN Secretary-General has warned the world about the disastrous effects of climate change. Meanwhile, scientists assert that we do not have much time to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celcius which were agreed upon in Paris last 2015.

Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III Jim Skea said that unless all sectors in the world will reduce their carbon emissions, it will be impossible to reach the 1.5 degrees Celcius global warming limit.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chair Hoesung Lee said that climate policy changes would help reduce the world’s carbon footprint.

“We are at a crossroads. This is the time for action. We have the tools and know-how required to limit warming and secure a liveable future,” said Lee.

“The preceding IPCC reports are clear – human-induced climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying. It is a threat to our well-being and all other species. It is a threat to the health of our entire planet. Any further delay in concerted global climate action will miss a rapidly closing window,” Lee added.

There is still hope to fight climate change. What we need is an immediate global effort to reduce carbon emissions to mitigate the irreversible effects of climate change. (ASC)