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Related: About this forumSee what three degrees Celcius of global warming looks like
If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. Its an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like.
00:00 - What will a 3°C world look like?
00:57 - Climate change is already having devastating effects
02:58 - How climate modelling works
04:06 - Nowhere is safe from global warming
05:20 - The impact of prolonged droughts
08:24 - Rising sea levels, storm surges and flooding
10:27 - Extreme heat and wet-bulb temperatures
12:51 - Increased migration and conflict
14:26 - Adaptation and mitigation are crucial
Read our briefing about a three degree world: https://econ.st/3nJiXYS
View all of The Economists climate change coverage: https://econ.st/3b1RwU2
Sign up to our climate change newsletter: https://econ.st/3b1dtCQ
Listen to our new climate podcast, To a Lesser Degree: https://econ.st/3b1RuLU
Read our special report on stabilising the climate: https://econ.st/3nw6CXK
Listen to an episode of The Intelligence podcast about a 3°C world: https://econ.st/2Zw3Utv
What would different levels of global warming look like? https://econ.st/2ZBsZDb
How climate modelling works: https://econ.st/3jNmlAN
Read about the IPCCs starkest warning yet about climate change: https://econ.st/3nxagk6
What to look out for at COP26: https://econ.st/2ZHngeZ
Why the COP26 climate summit will be both crucial and disappointing: https://econ.st/3Gvvibz
Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26: https://econ.st/3EnDBnU
Why damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising: https://econ.st/3Et40kq
Children born today are likely to face seven times more extreme weather events than their grandparents: https://econ.st/3GyuXEO
How to prepare for rising sea levels: https://econ.st/3EmtO1t
Podcast: The growing risk of deadly heatwaves: https://econ.st/3nFWFH8
The danger posed by heatwaves needs to be taken more seriously: https://econ.st/3k7SbZd
What if firms were forced to pay for frying the planet: https://econ.st/3nGpseT
deborah scranton:
There is also the problem of decreasing oxygen in our air. Cutting down massive amounts of forest & poisoning the water creatures that also produce oxygen is reducing the amount of breathable air. Also the massive amounts of polar ice melt releasing large amounts of methane in to the atmosphere does not bode well for the survival of plants, animals & humans.
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See what three degrees Celcius of global warming looks like (Original Post)
Justice matters.
Jun 2022
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dalton99a
(81,570 posts)1. Kick
Deuxcents
(16,330 posts)2. My grandkids will see this when they're my age..
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)3. Kick & recommend. This is a must see.
Thanks for posting this.
Chainfire
(17,636 posts)4. And the right claims that this is just another hoax
"Liberal science" meant to scare us, take away our trucks and ruin the economy, because liberals hate freedom....and Trump really did win the election, by a landslide.....
Kaleva
(36,342 posts)5. As there's no centralized effort to prepare folks to adapt, it's pretty much everyone for themself.