Climate change is Happening But Don’t Lose Hope Yet
WASHINGTON - The world's temperature is increasing and that is clear to farmers whose crop yields were hit by heat waves this year. Some small towns in Europe, Asia, and the United States have been affected by these waves. Those affected by the increasing amount of hurricanes are experiencing some climate change as well. Also those in the California area have been experiencing these wood fires which is also climate change.
The weather lately has become a deadly force and you can see that portrayed in the media. Those affected by the dangerous hurricanes and floods near the gulf and Caribbean have been eyewitnesses to the devastating results. In terms of human danger these are slightly lower compared to the widespread droughts in East Africa which aid agencies warn that about 800,000 people are at risk of starvation. These droughts are affected directly by the increasing temperature and that factor can also lead to food shortages which leads to mass migration.
Back in October the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research held a conference on climate change impacts and they conferred that it the climate is destabilized, it can also destabilize society. “The consequences of global warming not only lead to economic damage — they also damage human health, intensity forces driving migration and threaten the prospects of development for the world's poorest.”
Next week, world leaders are meeting in Bonn, Germany to talk the latest about negotiations aimed towards slowing the temperature rising and and bracing for its consequences. It’s coming after the Paris agreement which was two years ago, which was a breakthrough on climate control. Now almost all the world's governments are doing their best to cut emissions. This agreement is a sign of how far the governments of the world have come to seeing this issues and how they will go about it. So far the previous agreement of keeping the temperature from rising 2 more degrees Celsius has fallen short but they’re meeting to discuss what they plan to do.
As we all know Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris agreement but states are stepping up and making moves in compliant with the Paris deal. And these States are not alone Local governments around the world have made their emission targets known.
"Over the next 40 years or so, nature is going to play her cards — and the political systems and our cultural systems will either respond well, or they won't," said Peter Timmerman an associate professor of environmental studies at York University Toronto. Climate scientists point out that although we are still dealing with major uncertainties, we cannot rule out worst-case scenarios that conjure up a world of catastrophic weather, massive sea-level rise, plague and war.
