Extreme-weather events are now commonplace and, at this point, seem unavoidable — but as the IPCC report makes clear, there is still time to head off the most dire predictions
A beach in Pefki, on the island of Evia, Greece, was blanketed in smoke from a wildfire over the weekend. Photo: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg via Getty Images For years, climate scientists have been clear: If individuals and nations do not take drastic, decisive, and immediate action to scale back carbon emissions, then the hellish conditions we associate with extreme weather will become routine. Temperatures will rise at a withering pace, bringing sea levels ever higher as glaciers melt.
“The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: Greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk,” U.N. secretary-general António Guterres said of the report, calling its projections “a code red for humanity.”
The IPCC, made up of 195 preeminent climate scientists from around the world, delivers a status report about every seven years. Its latest assessment notes that human activity generated about 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming between 1850 and 1900 and that we are slated to exceed 1.
Extreme-weather events are now commonplace and, at this point, seem unavoidable — but as the report makes clear, there is still time to head off the most dire predictions. Slashing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 would, for example, give us a shot at stabilizing temperatures and sea-level rise. We cannot go backward, but we can prevent the situation from reaching its worst possible conclusions and maintain a habitable planet.
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