Climate scientists at the United Nations believe it's “now or never” to prevent catastrophic temperature rises and the disintegration of the climate systems that support life. Reports of bomb-like blizzards and scorching droughts provide a dreadful image of climate change's potential reality. Huge climatic swings are nothing new, they have historically been extremely destructive. Moreover, humans' current insatiable hunger for fossil fuels is causing a rapid swing that could have severe repercussions for civilisation. In recent decades, modern data demonstrate an unnatural global warming trend that has taken control of the Earth's climate. [1]

Figure 1. Climate Change's Harsh Reality Is Making the Weather Worse

Figure 1 shows Humans unencumber heat-trapping carbon dioxide and different greenhouse gases into the ambience once they burn fossil fuels, elevating world temperatures. This warming, consistent with experimental knowledge and local weather fashions, will adjust the elements in various tactics, making it warmer and chillier, extra intense, and chaotic. [2]

According to Weart, as the planet warms, more water evaporates from the surface of dry places, and precipitation increases in wet parts. To put it in another way, dry areas become dryer and wet areas more wet. Weart went on to say that extreme weather events like the 2018 heatwave in Japan, which killed over 1,000 people, are likely to become more regular in the future. [3]

According to a study published on the preprint website arXiv in 2022, if people do not lower their emissions, the Earth's temperature will fluctuate chaotically in ways that are impossible to anticipate.

However, during the Economist Sustainability Summit in 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that the 1.5-degrees Celsius objective was on life support, and that if emissions persisted, the world would face a climate catastrophe. If we are to stay under 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, world leaders must ensure that global carbon dioxide emissions begin to decline by 2025 and are halved by 2030, stated the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study. [4]

References:

1. https://newslogic.in/science/climate-changes-harsh-reality-is-making-the-weather-worse-for-people-across-globe-as-temperature-rises
2. https://mediantwrk.com/index.php/2022/05/31/climate-changes-harsh-reality-is-making-the-weather-worse-for-people-across-globe-as-temperature-rises/
3. https://m.thelocalreport.in/climate-changes-harsh-reality-is-making-the-weather-worse-for-people-across-globe-as-temperature-rises
4. https://gadgets360.com/science/news/climate-change-temperature-rise-weather-getting-worse-across-globe-3024914

Cite this article:

Thanusri swetha J (2022), Climate Change's Harsh Reality Is Making the Weather Worse, Anatechmaz, pp.136