UN Report: Only Drastic Action
Will Avert Consequences
of Climate Change.
The United Nations' annual
"emissions gap" report was
released on Tuesday.
The report states that global
temperatures are on track to
rise by as much as 7° F by 2100.
Such a rise in temperature would lead to rising seas, a massive loss of coral reefs and unbearable heat in the world's hottest regions.
Our collective failure to act
early and hard on climate
change means we now must
deliver deep cuts to emissions.
We need to catch up on the years
in which we procrastinated, Inger Andersen, U.N. Environment Program,
via 'The Washington Post'.
Every year of delay beyond 2020 brings a need for faster cuts, which become increasingly expensive, unlikely and impractical, U.N. Climate Change Report,
via 'The Washington Post'.
To avert the bleak predictions,
the report finds that global
greenhouse gasses must begin
to fall annually by almost 8% beginning in 2020.
In the past decade,
global emissions have
seen an annual rise of 1.5%.
Carbon emission in the U.S.
rose 2.7% in 2018, due to the
Trump administration's rollback of
Obama-era regulations concerning climate.
Investment in renewable
energy by developing
nations and in China has
also dropped dramatically
