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IPCC Climate change report

Nov 26, 2019
Apr 22, 2020

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IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
SPM

Summary for policymakers

effect on global warming due to human induced factors

The guardian newspaper

Founded in 1988

Takes scientific data various individual scientists

cites 6000 scientif reports

Report Finding

  • Temperature data vs time graph
  • Sice 1988 after climate cxhange effect was brough to UN, CO2 emission has increases instead of reduing
  • A small shift by 1 degree celcisu can make catastropic changes

annual-global-co2-emission

  • Presents 3 scenarios
  • What kind of changes we should expect if we do not change our ways?

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  • Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of CO2 emission1

What are the problems

  1. Desertification
  2. Land degradation
  3. food security
  4. Greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestial ecosystems

Factors

  1. Greenhouse gases - Co2
  2. Deforestation
  3. Ozone layer depletion

How can we metigate?

  1. Afforestatiom
  2. Leave fossil fuel in the ground
  3. Shift to electric vehicles
  4. Reduced meat consumption - eco friendly low fingerprint diet
  5. Paris Agreements

Footnotes

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  1. https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1499866813 [return]