Rising temperatures globally are causing many problems around the world. Weather events, including droughts, heat waves and floods, are intensifying.
Now, thanks to a study carried out by a scientific team from the Research Institute on the Effects of Climate Change in Potsdam (Germany), which has been published in the journal 'Nature Climate Change', we know that an increase of 0,5 degrees Celsius has been enough to make extreme weather conditions more durable and intense.
The researchers analyzed the temperatures that have been on Earth in two 20-year periods: from 1960 to 1979, and from 1991 to 2010 and were able to discover that an increase of only 0,5ºC has been enough for extreme weather conditions to be extreme. even more. For example, extreme rainfall has grown by almost 10% in a quarter of the planetWhile heat waves have lasted a week on average in half of the land areas.
These changes go beyond natural variability. The continuous use of fossil fuels, as well as the pollution of the land, sea and air are contributing to make things worse, to the point that, almost without realizing it, if we continue like this, we will put our own lives in danger. In fact, the experts themselves predict that We will have more and more bad harvests, a lower supply of drinking water and extreme heat waves.
And that's not to mention that coral reefs, as well as all the inhabitants who protect themselves in them, are highly threatened. An increasingly hot and acidic sea cannot be the home of corals, as they need lime to form.
If we do nothing, planet Earth in a few decades will be very different from the one we know today.
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