Weather Extremes Will Be the Norm As World Warms – Truthdig.
As the planet continues to warm, heat waves and other weather extremes that happen perhaps once in hundreds of years—if ever—would become the “new climate normal”, a World Bank report says.
The consequences for development would be severe: failing harvests, shifting water resources, rising sea-levels, and millions of people’s livelihoods put at risk.
The World Bank report, the third in its Turn Down the Heat series, says even very ambitious mitigation action taken today will not stop global average temperatures reaching about 1.5 C above their pre-industrial level by the middle of this century. They are already 0.8 C higher, and likely—on present trends—to reach about 4 C by 2100.
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