PARIS, Oct 25 — Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night.
The Amazon tropical forest, upon which we depend to soak up carbon pollution, could turn into savannah. “It was an ‘Oh Shit!’ moment,” Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research , told AFP in an interview. Those least resistant to global warming and closest to a point of no return are tropical coral reefs, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, alpine glaciers, Arctic summer sea ice and the Amazon forest.
“Abrupt responses and tipping points of the climate system... cannot be ruled out,” the UN’s climate science advisory body now warns. This, in turn, could push Earth’s tropical rain belt southward and weaken the African and Asian monsoons, upon which hundreds of millions depend for rain-fed crops.
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