Could climate change be irreversible?

Havana, Oct 6 (RHC) Our world only has until 2030 to keep the global temperature below 1.5 degrees Celsius, because heat increases will make climate change lamentably irreversible due to increased emissions of greenhouse gases.

This is how specialists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations, after examining deep into high mountains in polar regions and deep oceans.

It is therefore necessary to adopt urgent measures to halt the dependence of the world economy on fossil fuels in order to avoid the increase of harmful environmental impacts such as rapid melting of ice in frozen regions of the world that will dramatically alter human civilization in coming years.

Scientific research shows that global warming accelerates the melting of glaciers and ice sheets from Greenland to Antarctica and that sea levels will rise much more this century than in previous stages.

According to research, Greenland lost more than 275 gigatons of ice between 2006 and 2015 with the melting of its Antarctic layer into large ice masses that will, of course, cause global sea surges.

The oceans are permanently affected by global warming and the absorption of carbon dioxide from the greenhouse gases that acidify the seas, affecting the coral areas on which millions of species of the ocean environment depend in existence.

Certainly the world of those affected by climate change expects the reduction of global warming with urgent measures to prevent the growing threat of a planet like ours exposed to atmospheric adversity.

There are still several years to face the irreversibility of climate change and then we would have to bear on our shoulders the weight of environmental pollution, the symptoms of impure air, greater migration of populations in search of better ecological spaces and systematic famines due to extreme droughts.

What is the world waiting for to avoid this catastrophe?

(Taken from RHC in Spanish)

Written by Radio Grito de Baire