Hundreds of millions of people in coastal areas would be threatened if climate change continues unabated, the UN's climate body warned.
Ice sheets are melting, glaciers are shrinking and the planet’s oceans are changing in “unprecedented” ways, according to a shocking new report the United Nations released Wednesday, the latest confirmation that climate change is already wreaking havoc around the globe.
“But it can’t keep up,” she said. “These changes show that the world’s ocean and cryosphere have been taking the heat from climate change for decades; the consequences for nature and humanity are sweeping and severe.” “Each year that we delay action, ocean waters warm and become more acidic. This fuels hurricanes, kills coral reefs, and threatens the safety and livelihoods of the 40% of the world’s population who lives within 60 miles of the coast,” Miriam Goldstein, a director of ocean policy at the Center for American Progress, said in a statement this week.
The IPCC noted that while some of the most dire impacts of climate change may not come for several decades, many are already being felt in the oceans and ice caps and are almost sure to take place by 2100 if global emissions remain unchecked. Researchers said they were “virtually certain” the oceans had warmed unabated since the 1970s, spurring acidification that has impacted biodiversity and harmed coral reefs.
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