A UN science panel has warned in a report issued on Wednesday that Climate change is set to cause frequent flooding, rising sea levels, major loss of glaciers and thawing of permafrost
The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman, Hoesung Lee, said this as he launched the report on the state of the world’s oceans and frozen regions.
The consequences will be worse the quicker temperatures rise, so governments need to take “urgent and ambitious” action to curb emissions, IPCC report said.
Extremely high sea levels that currently occur once every 100 years are likely to hit many low-lying megacities and small islands annually by 2050, even in a reduced emissions scenario, the IPCC said.
On average, the world is likely to face a sea level rise of 43 centimetres by the year 2100 in the lowest of four global warming scenarios considered in the report, compared with 84 centimetres in the highest scenario.
The UN panel’s report, drawn up by 104 experts from 36 different countries, is based on a review of almost 7,000 scientific publications.
