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Global Warming
The rate of growth has more than doubled. The global annual temperature has risen by 0.18 degrees Celsius (0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade over the last 40 years. What’s the result? The world has never been cooler. Since 1880, nine of the ten warmest years have occurred since 2005, and the five hottest years on record have all occurred since 2015. Climate change deniers say that rising global temperatures have slowed or stopped, but several reports, including one published in the journal Environmental Research Letters in 2018, have refuted this claim. People all over the world are now suffering as a result of global warming’s impact.
The Consequences
Climate experts have now agreed that we must limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2040 if we wish to prevent a future in which the worst, most destructive consequences of climate change: prolonged droughts, hurricanes, flooding, tropical storms, and other disasters that we collectively refer to as climate change, will be part of daily life around the world. These consequences affect everyone in some way, but they are felt more profoundly by the poor, economically disadvantaged, and people of color, for whom climate change is often a primary cause of poverty, migration, hunger, and civil unrest.
Greenhouse Effect
