Research warns of the long timescale of climate change impacts unless urgent action is taken to cut emissions drastically Huge sea-level rises caused by climate change will last far longer than the entire history of human civilisation to date,according to original research, unless the brief window of opportunity of the next few decades is used to cut carbon emissions drastically.
Even whether global warming is capped at governments’ target of 2C - which is already seen as difficult - 20% of the world’s population will eventually hold to migrate absent from coasts swamped by rising oceans. Cities including original York, or London,Rio de Janeiro, Cairo, or Calcutta,Jakarta and Shanghai would all be submerged.
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Source: theguardian.com