The article I read from The Guardian says that on monday September 23, scientists will be handing a report to political leaders in Stockholm. These assessments will say that the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have now led to a warming of the entire globe. This includes land surfaces, ocean, and atmosphere. Heatwaves, storms, and other extreme weather events have increased in many regions while ice sheets are becoming scarce. The sea levels are rising as the oceans are being acidified. This could result in the planet's coral reefs disappearing before the end of the century.
These assessments also warn that in the next few decades, global temperatures will raise enough to trigger the release of plumes of methane gas from the Arctic tundra, while the solar ice caps, which reflect solar radiation back into space, could disappear. This, although the report doesn't say so, means that Earth would probably then be facing a runaway greenhouse effect.
The report will be discussed by political leaders meeting in Stockholm this week. This study is the work of more than 200 scientists and outlines the physical changes that are likely to affect Earth's climate this century. Future reports are planned to cover the social impact of these changes and the efforts required to offset the damage caused by global warming. Ultimately, these political leaders now have to decide how we are going to approach this issue.
The article also says that this report is coming at a time when more and more people think that global warming is not real, but whether global warming is real or not, how can we think that everything that we are putting out into the air is good for the earth? Instead of arguing about whether these awful things will happen, we should simply always be aware of how much waste and chemicals we are putting out into the earth. This is our home and we should want to keep it beautiful not only for ourselves, but for future generations.
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