The Future of Global Warming Looks Bleak

The scientists at the United Nations seemed to have unraveled one of the bleakest reports yet about global warming. In fact, they said that the future might be dotted with floods, drought, conflict and even economic damage if the emissions, which include carbon, are not checked. This study was conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and they are highly likely to slate the policies for what is to shape the future for climate changes.

Scientists and representatives from all around the globe are meeting in Yokohama, Japan to scrutinize and analyze a twenty-nine page summary. The complete report will be released in March 31. “We have a lot clearer picture of impacts and their consequences… including the implications for security,” said Chris Field of the United States’ Carnegie Institution, who headed the probe. This will be one of the first updates of climatic changes and its impact on the future which will include the magnitude of things to come. Even though this is the first update in 7 years, this is the second report of a trilogy on the causes, effects and precautions of climate change.

Last year, in September, a collated document on the physical science of climate change was recorded and released in Stockholm. In this report it was also revealed that humans were mainly responsible for the drastic change in climatic conditions and its effects. This week the second group will be working in Yokohama to figure the causes and its effects on humans and the ecology.

Their findings will be slated in a document that will make up thirty underlying chapters, each containing detailed analysis of research done since 2007. A leaked draft of the summary, as seen by the BBC, points to a range of negative effects that will, in some instances, be “irreversible“. People living in the coastal regions of Asia will be affected by flooding and lose their habitats due to the same.

The draft also goes onto say that the global crop yield will decrease by around two percent each decade for the rest of the century. If the worldwide temperatures increase by around 4 degrees centigrade by the end of the century then this will place a severe risk on the availability of sufficient food. This increase in temperatures could be dangerous for the Arctic Sea ice and even the coral reefs. The oceans, according to the leaked draft, are likely to get more acidic in content and many species will move towards the poles to escape the rise in temperatures.

In this reports scientists have taken a deeper look at individual scenarios rather than global warming as a whole. “We’ve reached the stage where we can go impact by impact, and say is there an influence of climate change?” Dr Chris Field, co-chair of Working Group II, stated to BBC News. He went on to state that, “We don’t see it with everyone but we do see it with a lot. It’s a real difference. Before it was a very general concept, now it is much more specific.“