The United Nations called a code red for humanity in a recently released report on climate change. A “code red” describes a serious emergency. The U.N. report said the Earth’s atmosphere is getting so hot that temperatures in 10 years will probably pass a dangerous level. Linda Mearns is a climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and a co-writer of the report. She said, "It's just guaranteed that it's going to get worse. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide." But scientists also reduced their predictions of the worst climate disasters. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group formed by the U.N., released the report which calls climate change human-caused. The IPCC makes more exact predictions for the next 80 years than it did the last time it released a report in 2013. The UN group predicts five possible situations that might take place in the future. They are based on how much carbon gas emissions are cut by nations around the world. Each one of the possible situations meets the warming levels set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. In that agreement, many world leaders said they would try to limit the average warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. The number was set at 1.5 degrees Celsius above the average temperature levels in the 1800s before industrialization spread around the world. The Paris climate agreement also talked about permitting a 2-degree rise in the Earth’s average temperature. The report’s scientists said the atmosphere has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius since then. Under each possible situation, the report said, the world will cross the 1.5-degree-Celsius mark in the 2030s. That is earlier than some past predictions. The report’s scientists said warming has increased in recent years. Valerie Masson-Delmotte is the co-chair of the report. She also is a climate scientist at France's Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences at the University of Paris-Saclay. She said, "Our report shows that we need to be prepared for going into that level of warming in the coming decades. But we can avoid further levels of warming by acting on greenhouse gas emissions. In three of the five possible situations, worldwide average temperatures will warm by more than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times. That is the higher temperature limit under the Paris climate agreement. The scientists predict reaching this level will cause severe heat waves, droughts and flooding rainstorms. The report warns this will happen unless nations sharply cut their carbon gas emissions.
Title: UN Report: ‘Nowhere to Run’ from Global Warming
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temperatures in 10 years will probably pass a dangerous level.</span> <span data-start-time='25313' data-end-time='36667'>Linda Mearns is a climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and a co-writer of the report. </span> <span data-start-time='36667' data-end-time='41917'>She said, "It's just guaranteed that it's going to get worse. </span> <span data-start-time='41917' data-end-time='45979'>Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide."</span> <span data-start-time='45979' data-end-time='53000'>But scientists also reduced their predictions of the worst climate disasters.</span> <span data-start-time='53000' data-end-time='66708'>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group formed by the U.N., released the report which calls climate change human-caused. </span> <span data-start-time='66708' data-end-time='78521'>The IPCC makes more exact predictions for the next 80 years than it did the last time it released a report in 2013.</span> <span data-start-time='78521' data-end-time='85604'>The UN group predicts five possible situations that might take place in the future. </span> <span data-start-time='85604' data-end-time='92625'>They are based on how much carbon gas emissions are cut by nations around the world.</span> <span data-start-time='92625' data-end-time='102458'>Each one of the possible situations meets the warming levels set in the 2015 Paris climate agreement.</span> <span data-start-time='102458' data-end-time='110917'>In that agreement, many world leaders said they would try to limit the average warming of the Earth’s atmosphere. </span> <span data-start-time='110917' data-end-time='124313'>The number was set at 1.5 degrees Celsius above the average temperature levels in the 1800s before industrialization spread around the world. </span> <span data-start-time='124313' data-end-time='133229'>The Paris climate agreement also talked about permitting a 2-degree rise in the Earth’s average temperature. </span> <span data-start-time='133229' data-end-time='141438'>The report’s scientists said the atmosphere has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius since then.</span> <span data-start-time='141438' data-end-time='152000'>Under each possible situation, the report said, the world will cross the 1.5-degree-Celsius mark in the 2030s. </span> <span data-start-time='152000' data-end-time='156313'>That is earlier than some past predictions. </span> <span data-start-time='156313' data-end-time='162563'>The report’s scientists said warming has increased in recent years.</span> <span data-start-time='162563' data-end-time='167542'>Valerie Masson-Delmotte is the co-chair of the report. </span> <span data-start-time='167542' data-end-time='179021'>She also is a climate scientist at France's Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences at the University of Paris-Saclay. </span> <span data-start-time='179021' data-end-time='188729'>She said, "Our report shows that we need to be prepared for going into that level of warming in the coming decades. </span> <span data-start-time='188729' data-end-time='195625'>But we can avoid further levels of warming by acting on greenhouse gas emissions.</span> <span data-start-time='195625' data-end-time='207104'>In three of the five possible situations, worldwide average temperatures will warm by more than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times. </span> <span data-start-time='207104' data-end-time='212479'>That is the higher temperature limit under the Paris climate agreement. </span> <span data-start-time='212479' data-end-time='220292'>The scientists predict reaching this level will cause severe heat waves, droughts and flooding rainstorms. </span> <span data-start-time='220292' data-end-time='227625'>The report warns this will happen unless nations sharply cut their carbon gas emissions.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' 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