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“We are not prepared” for climate change—scientists issue bleak warning

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Inhabitat

Publication Date
2018-02-16

Researchers have determined that countries around the world are failing to fulfill their greenhouse gas reduction commitments under the Paris climate agreement, inevitably subjecting the world to unpredictable extreme weather. In a study published in the journal Science Advances, scientists concluded that extreme weather, such as drought, flooding, or heat waves, will increase across 90 percent of North America, Europe and East Asia if countries maintain their current pace of climate action. “We are not prepared for today’s climate, let alone for another degree of global warming,” study author Noah Diffenbaugh, a Stanford University professor of earth system science, told Time.

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