Article content Here’s all the latest news concerning the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the steps leaders are taking to address these issues. • Canada’s 2023 wildfires burned huge chunks of forest, spewing far more heat-trapping gas than planes • B.C.
homes and businesses to be eligible for rebates for rooftop solar systems • Three years after wildfire, Lytton’s slow rebuild is underway • UBC researchers concerned about drop in butterfly sightings Human activities like burning fossil fuels are the main driver of climate change, according to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This causes heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere, increasing the planet’s surface temperature. The panel, which is made up of scientists from around the world, has warned for decades that wildfires and severe , such as B.
C.’s deadly heat dome and catastrophic flooding in 2021, would become more frequent and more intense because of the climate emergency. It has issued a “code red” for humanity and warns the window to limit warming to 1.
5 C above pre-industrial times is closing. But it’s not too late to avoid the worst-case scenarios. According to NASA climate scientists, if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the rise in global temperatures would begin to flatten within a few years.
Temperatures would then plateau but remain well-elevated for many centuries. • The Earth is now about 1.2 C warmer than it was in the 1800s.
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