A
new study from German researchers at organizations such as the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research has estimated global temperature
increases based on the pledges of international governments to reduce
emissions.
Despite calls by small island nations for a limit of
1.5 degrees Celsius global temperature rise and even the Copenhagen
Accord’s establishment of 2 degrees maximum, the study’s findings point
to a devastating 3 degree increase in temperature.
Potsdam
Institute’s Bill Hare stated, “The current pledges and loopholes give us
a virtual certainty of exceeding 1.5 degrees, with global warming very
likely exceeding 2 degrees and a more than 50-percent chance of
exceeding 3 degrees by 2100.”
According to environmental
journalist Mark Lynas, author of the book, “Six Degrees: Our Future on a
Hotter Planet,” a 3-degree temperature rise scenario includes
super-hurricanes destroying large cities, vast areas of Africa and
Australia rendered uninhabitable due to drought, massive carbon release
from vegetation and soil and the loss of the entire Amazon rainforest in
uncontrollable firestorms.
According to the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Earth has already
heated up by 0.8 degrees Celsius since the start of industrialization,
with accompanying sea level rise and accelerated loss of ice and
permafrost.
Scientists forecast that even a 1 to 2-degree
warming would cause calamities such as the submersion of low-lying
coastlines, heatstroke fatalities across Europe, and the extinction of
at least a third of all species.
We appreciate the contributions
of Dr. Hare and Potsdam Institute colleagues, Mr. Lynas and
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientists in helping us see
the reality of the life-threatening perils we face, as we pray your
message awakens us to the importance of acting faster and with ever more
focus to preserve lives on our planet.
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avert planetary disasters, as in an October 2009 speech addressing
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the children, that our conscience might never be able to bear it.
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