Even If The World Meets Its Climate Targets, Half Of All Glaciers Will Be Gone In 77 Years

In the latest instalment of Humanity’s Fucked: Half of Earth’s glaciers will be gone by 2100 even if every single nation meets its unlikely climate targets under the Paris Agreement. According to a new climate change report published on Thursday, 49 per cent of all the glaciers on the planet will disappear under the best-case scenario of 1.5C of global warming. Under the most likely outcome of 2.7C of warming, at least 68 per cent of glaciers will be gone by the end of the century. We will be left with almost no glaciers left in central Europe, western Canada and the US and yes, sea levels will rise considerably. If global temps only rise by 1.5C, the report predicts average sea levels will increase by 90mm from 2015 to 2100. But if we continue on our current 2.7C of warming trajectory, seas will rise at least 115mm. These rise estimates are also 23 per cent higher than previous modelling, by the way. This shit is a lot worse than we thought. The projected sea level rise will threaten up to 2 billion people with water shortages for the areas that get their water from glaciers and

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