Record carbon emissions, melting ice sheets and the return of the former US president will all be under the spotlight at this week’s climate summit
Holidaymakers relax on a beach at Viña del Mar on Chile’s Pacific coast under a sky darkened by forest fires.Holidaymakers relax on a beach at Viña del Mar on Chile’s Pacific coast under a sky darkened by forest fires.
As a result, they have forecast that 2024 will probably have been the warmest on record, with global average temperatures expected to end up more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Nor is this rise likely to plateau in the near future. In such a scenario, major tipping points are likely to be passed. These will include the destabilisation of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, the abrupt thawing of the world’s permafrost regions, the collapse of the. Widespread flooding will ensue and temperatures will continue to rise, while deadly droughts and storms will increase in frequency. Hundreds of millions of people – mostly those in developing nations – will find their homelands no longer habitable.
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