Doomsday Warning: World On Course For 3C Heating by 2100

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IPCC chairman admits world missed target to keep 1.5C global heating

By Raisina Correspondent

New Delhi, October 7: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman, Jim Skea, has said that the “humanity missed the chance to keep the global heating below 1.5C”. Skea said that the world is now on course to heating by three degree centigrade by the end of the century.

Skea in an interview to The Guardian said that “a failure to sufficiently curb carbon emissions had left the world on track to warm by 3C by 2100”. The admissions of impending climate havoc by the IPCC chairman came after the United Nations body in 2023 admitted that none of the signatory country complied with the committed fossil fuel reductions.

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Skea’s admissions that the “near-term global warming of 1.8-1.9°C and rising” is seen as catastrophic. The last COP meeting was held in Dubai with climate activists rueing that the world abandoned the climate commitments by giving a fossil-fuel country to host the meet.

The $100 billion funding in climate mitigation efforts, agreed upon at the Sharm-el-Sheikh COP meet, is just trickles currently. The Russia-Ukraine War, Covid-19 pandemic, and unwillingness of the developed world to transfer clean technology are attributed for the humanity missing the bus to check global heating.

“Obviously temperature rises over land will be higher than over the ocean. We don’t know how warm it will get but I know it may be more than the global average,” Skea told The Guardian.

The admissions by the IPCC chairman came amid rising instances of impacts of the climate change in all parts of the world. AFP in a report gave an account of the drying up of Great Salt Lake.

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The report said that the lake in the northern parts of the US dried up. The drying up of the lake risks life of over two million people alongside the waterbody in the Utah state of the US.

The climate events so far have been seen in a year-long drought in Afghanistan, flooding of almost half of Pakistan, drying up of long rivers in China and South America, floods and rising instances of avalanches in India.

“One of the biggest risks in many regions will come from the combination of heat and humidity,” Skea told The Guardian, adding: “It will just be difficult to live and to work outside.”

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The IPCC chairman stated that “in some parts of the world, that will be really a showstopper for some kinds of economic activity”.

While admitting that limiting warming to 1.5°C is unfeasible, the IPCC chairman remarked that the fossil fuel reductions should have started from 2019. “Now, it means 1.5C is slipping away from us. Just keeping to 2°C will take heroic efforts,” added Skea.

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