World Wakes Up to Climate Change, Takes Action in 2014

World Wakes Up to Climate Change, Takes Action in 2014: "According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment, released this year, the planet is well on its way to a 2-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above pre-industrial times. Experts agree that would trigger irreversible change, including rising seas and more frequent and intense storms and drought.  

Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University and an author of the IPCC assessment, said that unless governments act now to reduce heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, life on the planet could get much worse.


FILE - A man clears debris from the remains of his home that was damaged by waves from Typhoon Hagupit in Legazpi, Philippines, Dec. 8, 2014.
“If we are not judicious in our choices of what to do about restraining the emissions of the greenhouse gases," he said, "then by the end of the end of this century we could be several degrees Celsius warmer than we are now and put Earth in a condition that it has not seen in millions of years.”

While these predictions are grim, 2014 also brought some hopeful signs that the global community is beginning to take action on climate change."



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