The world’s natural disasters have been the result of global climate change, which is unlikely to stop, according to Bloomberg.
According to the agency, the media are increasingly reporting on floods in Western Europe and China, abnormal heat in the United States and Canada, forest fires in Siberia, as well as 50-degree temperature records in Turkey and North Africa. All this is happening against the background of unprecedentedly low values in South Africa and Brazil.
According to German meteorologist Johannes Kwas, the global climate response to change is not instantaneous: today’s events are the result of emissions that were released into the atmosphere decades ago. Thus, the planet has already warmed by 1.2 degrees compared to the pre-industrial period.
At the same time, he writes, even if humanity fulfills the task of reducing harmful substances, warming is still inevitable: by the end of the century the temperature on Earth will rise by 0.3-0.8 degrees.
Scientists note that it is impossible to make an accurate forecast of the decline in global climate change, despite the correct results of previous studies – such an experiment is conducted for the first time in history.