Climate Change Is The Foremost Threat To Human Health Ever Sold
During the early October the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s definitive scientific body on the topic, published, ‘Global Warming of 1.5C.’ Over 90 scientists from 40 countries reviewing 6,000 studies prepared the IPCC report in reaction to a 2015 Paris climate accord request. Its purpose was to discriminate between the aftereffects of global warming at 1.5°C (2.7°F) versus 2.0°C (3.6°F). The Paris accord called for holding warming below 2.0°C while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. For instance, should temperatures increase to 1.5°C, the report found of 105,000 species studied, four percent of vertebrates, six percent of insects and eight percent of plants would lose 50 % of their climatically-determined geographic range. At 2°C the percents double to triple. At 1.5°C we will lose 70 to 90 percent of coral reefs, at 2°C there will be a 99 percent loss.
The IPCC report is simply one of the latest in an increasing number of publications by leading national and international science bodies that conclude all life with this planet is under existential threat. What does the IPCC report while the subsequently published 4th National Climate Assessment and Lancet’s ‘Countdown on Health and Climate Change,’ the 2017 ‘Climate Science Special Report’ (CCSR), while the 2016 federal government report titled ‘The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States; A Scientific Assessment,’ conclude relative to the results of global warming on human health? Continue reading “Climate Change Is The Foremost Threat To Human Health Ever Sold”