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'A Crisis Entirely of Humanity's Making': UN Chief Issues Climate SOS on Trip To Pacific
Tuesday August 27, 2024. 05:33 PM , from Slashdot
The report said 34 mostly storm or flood-related 'hydrometeorological hazard events' in the south-west Pacific last year led to more than 200 deaths and affected more than 25 million people. In a second report published on Tuesday, the UN's climate action team warned that the climate crisis and sea-level rise were 'no longer distant threats,' especially for the Pacific's small island developing states. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded with high confidence in 2021 that the global mean sea level was rising at rates unprecedented in at least the last 3,000 years as a result of human-induced global warming. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/08/27/1533242/a-crisis-entirely-of-humanitys-making-un-chief-issu...
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