IPCC Report: “Clobbered by climate change”
S. Himmelstein | March 01, 2022
Global temperature changes for the 1981-2020 period. Source: IPCC
Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks. People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit, according to a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
The document contends that the world faces unavoidable multiple climate hazards over the next two decades with global warming of 1.5° C (2.7° F). Even temporarily exceeding this warming level will result in additional severe impacts, some of which will be irreversible. The increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves, droughts and floods will result in food and water shortages, dislocation of communities and species extinctions.
“With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
The report outlines key risks across regions and sectors, covering water supplies, food security, terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services, marine and coastal ecosystems, urban infrastructure, sustainable development and decision-making options for managing risks. The latter are intended to address the rapidly narrowing window of opportunity to implement system transitions needed to enable climate-resilient development.
Did they ask the person on the street?
Why is it that no one every mentions where these problem are faced? Also, land prices and the availability of land for farming has been reduced for housing in most countries. This stops anyone farming unless it is a big corporate who can afford the land and taxes. Included here is the never mentioned fact that few people want to be in farming due to the high costs and and low income it generates as the middle man makes the money,not the farmer.
Across the world the average age of farmers is around 58 years old and very little new blood is going into farming. So how can anyone make these statements and try to make them believable. Corporate have made people dependent on them and people no longer simply make a veggie garden or even grow their own veggies. Far easier to nip out to the supermarket and buy them.
Sweden imports fish rather than growing their own and to set up a fish farm is a nightmare and not worth the hassle and Sweden imports around 75% of their fish from other countries.
People buy bottled water. Why? It all comes from the same source. Again corporates manage our water for their own ends. Cut down on sodas and bottled water and the dams and lakes will have water for all people and animals. It will also clean the place up of useless plastics.
So what do you expect if its cheaper to buy and import foods? The window was made many years ago and it was nailed and painted closed due to managing and clever marketing to people and gaining profits.
Nature does not have a problem, humans do.