Earth's Ecosystems Are Reaching A Point Of No Recovery From Climate Change
Climate-related news for Earth only spells doom and gloom. Now, it appears that many parts of Earth are quickly approaching the limits of their ability to adapt to climate change, Scientific American reported on Friday.
What does this mean? Quite simply, many ecosystems are going to die out, leaving behind the scope of ever recovering from climate change. For instance, tropical coral reefs have already crossed those limits, heading towards their demise.
An explosive report coming soon
Two weeks from now, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a report with insights into how Earth will respond to ongoing changes in climate and what countries can do to prevent catastrophe.
Usually climate change is misunderstood as a phenomenon that will affect nature in exclusion. Non-believers of climate change think climate change wouldn't affect them, and that's exactly what the upcoming report will try to change.
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According to Debra Roberts, co-chair of the IPCC Working Group II, the new report will explicitly highlight how climate change affects human and ecosystems on Earth.
If extreme weather events becoming common isn't a precursor to climate catastrophes that await us in the future, then perhaps we will never mend our ways. In the face of rising threats of climate change, fears of a mass extinction event in the future are increasing. Many claim that a mass extinction event has already begun.
When ecosystems can't adapt with climate change, they simply perish - killing every lifeform supported by them. Of course, humans may outlive all other species on Earth, but its effects will eventually find a way to displace humans and cause tremendous loss of life.
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References
Sara Schonhardt, E&E News. (2022, February 11). Earth Could Surpass Ability of Ecosystems to Recover from Warming. Scientific American.?
