Serious indicators on climate change

Climate change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its sixth report, and the news is very bad. Climate change threatens the world and humanity, and humans themselves are causing it to a very large extent, and the slow response by the countries of the world to reduce and mitigate it means that global warming is inevitable. It is an irreversible reality. Sea level is likely to rise by two feet by the end of this century if the world's countries do not move quickly now and stop using fossil fuels. For the first time, the temperature in Sicily reached 119.85 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature currently recorded in Europe. On Wednesday, August 11, 2021, half of the US population was subject to heat warnings. More than 600 people died in a heat wave (thermal dome) in late June in the Pacific Northwest than would normally die at that time of year. The acknowledged death toll in Oregon and Washington was 194, including at least three workers. However, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration refuses to set national standards for acceptable levels of heat and humidity.(1) California's Dixie Fire burned nearly half a million acres of farmland, considered the largest single fire in US history. The hydroelectric power plant at California's Oroville Dam, one of the largest in the state, has also been shut down because the water level in the reservoir is too low. The Siberian heat wave is releasing huge amounts of methane from previously frozen limestone formations, which is a very dangerous indicator of climate change. ExxonMobil has been expelled from the Climate Leadership Council, an industry group that has lobbied for a carbon tax on ill-considered emitters, demonstrating the world's unwillingness to tackle the climate change crisis. This is our situation today, unfortunately, with climate change. (2)

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