Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions
By Camilo Mora, Daniele J. Spirandelli, E. Franklin, John M. Lynham, M. Kantar, W. Miles, Charlotte Z. Smith, Kelle C. Freel, J. Moy, Leo V. Louis and 13 more. Nature Climate Change, 2018
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The ongoing emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is triggering changes in many climate hazards that can impact humanity. We found traceable evidence for 467 pathways by which human health, water, food, economy, infrastructure and security have been recently impacted by climate hazards such as warming, heatwaves, precipitation, drought, floods, fires, storms, sea-level rise and changes in natural land cover and ocean chemistry. By 2100, the world’s population will be exposed concurrently to the equivalent of the largest magnitude in one of these hazards if emmisions are aggressively reduced, or three if they are not, with some tropical coastal areas facing up to six simultaneous hazards. These findings highlight the fact that GHG emissions pose a broad threat to humanity by intensifying multiple hazards to which humanity is vulnerable.This Review examines the pathways through which humans are impacted by climate change and shows that by 2100 the world’s population will be simultaneously exposed to at least three hazards, and in some locations as many as six, under an RCP 8.5 scenario.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science
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- Strategies to achieve a carbon neutral society: a review (2022, background): “…significant damage to the human living environment, including the extinction of some species, loss of biodiversity, droughts, floods, forest fires, ocean acidification, melting of north and south pole glaciers (NSPG), and sea-level rise (Maximillian et al. 2019; Mora et al. 2018; Yang et al. 2022).”