We Have Ten Years to Save the World: Climate Change Is Definitely F*cking Happening ~ An Update

[dropcap size=big]S[/dropcap]o long, L.A.? Climate experts now say world has just about a decade to dramatically reverse course on climate emissions or likely pass a point-of-no-return scenario in which a hotter planet would be unrecognizable to the world we know today.

Commissioned as part of the landmark Paris Climate Accord, a newly-published analysis calculates human society must cut yearly carbon emissions in half by 2030 to hit the temperature target set in the 2015 agreement, 1.5°C peak warming. Failure to do so will result in catastrophic and irreversible changes to the environment, the report forecasts, replete with food shortages, mass marine die-offs, collapsing ice sheets, rising seas, resource instability, and migration crises, said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

That gives us just over a decade to take significant steps to check emissions or almost certainly face destructive consequences. The findings prompted United Nations Environment Program director Erik Solheim to call the assessment, “a deafening, piercing smoke alarm going off.”

“We have to put out the fire,” he told the Washington Post.