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The public substantially underestimates the degree of scientific consensus that humans are causing climate change. [411] Studies from 2019 to 2021 [412] [4] [413] found scientific consensus to range from 98.7 to 100%. Climate change came to international public attention in the late 1980s. [414]
Drivers of climate change from 1850–1900 to 2010–2019. Future global warming potential for long lived drivers like carbon dioxide emissions is not represented. The scientific community has been investigating the causes of climate change for decades.
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways ( SSPs) are climate change scenarios of projected socioeconomic global changes up to 2100 as defined in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on climate change in 2021. [ 2] They are used to derive greenhouse gas emissions scenarios with different climate policies. [ 3][ 4][ 5] The SSPs provide narratives describing ...
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), also known as the "Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems", is a landmark study from 2019 by 107 experts from 52 countries.
Because of climate change, 33% of Europeans feel they will have to relocate to a colder or warmer area or nation, according to the European Investment Bank's climate survey in 2020. [6] [141] In European Investment Bank's Climate Survey of 2020, 90% of Europeans believe their children will experience the effects of climate change in their daily ...
Deforestation and climate change. Deforestation in the tropics – given as the annual average between 2010 and 2014 – was responsible for 2.6 billion tonnes of CO 2 per year. That was 6.5% of global CO 2 emissions. Deforestation is a primary contributor to climate change, [ 1][ 2] and climate change affects the health of forests. [ 3]
Measurements and statistics. "Vital Signs of the Planet" as presented by NASA on 31 December 2019 [2] NOAA 's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and the WMO reported that 2019 was the second hottest year in its 140-year climate record—0.04°C (0.07°F) cooler than 2016—with the U.K. Met Office ranking it among the three ...
One quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions result from food and agriculture (data from 2019). [ 1] The amount of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is significant: The agriculture, forestry and land use sectors contribute between 13% and 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions. [ 2] Emissions come from direct greenhouse gas ...