The IPCC has spoken!
Today, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) presented its first major climate report since 2014. The report is based on updated scientific basis on physical climate change from everything that has come from climate research over the past eight years. More than 700 researchers and experts from 90 countries have participated in the work. The report shows the seriousness we are facing. We must act NOW!
Humans have warmed the climate!
The report presented today shows that the climate is getting warmer, and the changes are moving rapidly. The warming is due to a several types of man-made emissions, with only small amounts from natural fluctuations.
In addition, we see rapid and widespread changes in the atmosphere, the ocean, the frozen areas of the Earth and the biosphere.
Global sea levels have risen 20 cm between 1901 and 2018. The sea has become more acidic and less oxygen-containing, and the sea has warmed faster in the last century than at any time since the end of the last ice age.
Climate change affects all parts of the Earth, not only in the countries we hear about that experience extreme weather such as floods, heat waves, droughts, forest fires, etc.
We need to reduce CO2 emissions!
The report shows that temperatures are expected to reach or exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next 20 years. It presents different scenarios based on different emission paths, but none of the scenarios show that we are able to stay below 1.5 degrees.
We humans MUST reduce our CO2 emissions, and we must remove CO2 from the atmosphere if we are to stabilize anthropogenic climate change.
Read more about the report and work behind it on the Norwegian Environment Agency's website here: miljodirektoratet.no/ansvarsomrader/klima/fns-klimapanel-ipcc/
The previous report laid the foundations for the 2015 Paris Agreement. Now the hope is that the new report will help with a new agreement at the climate summit in Glasgow in November.
Facts about the IPCC's sixth main report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s new main report summarizes the latest climate research.
Over 700 researchers and experts from 90 countries participate in the work. Ninety-nine of them are from Norway.
The report is the sixth in line and is referred to as AR6.
The IPCC's first main report was published in 1990.
(Sources: IPCC, Norwegian Environment Agency, NTB)
