Climate Revolution and other environment groups find hard to believe that there are still some institutions and people who claim that climate change isn't a threat and that it's actually good for us, notwithstanding the fact that global temperatures continue to rise.
Since 1980s, every decade has been much warmer than the decade before. At the time, the 1980s was the hottest decade on record. Then at the end of the 1990s, it was the warmest decade on record. The 2000's broke records again and became the warmest decade and 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest year since records began.
In the same decade, climate related disasters reported a dramatic ten-fold increase since 1950. Last year alone, we saw catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, wildfires and extreme temperatures in Russia, severe rain, floods and landslides in China and unprecedented flooding in Australia. Rainfall broke records in India too and flash floods left around 200 people dead in the sparsely populated Leh region.
In its 2007 reports, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had warned of precisely such disasters. Scientific understanding of climate systems has advanced rapidly since its release and hundreds of new reports and studies-many of which are thorough scientific assessments as broad in their scope as the IPCC reports-have shown that the worst predictions are coming true. Read the full report here.
Source: Daily India.com, New Delhi/Bangalore.
