The 2020 season has been an extreme year for hurricanes and wildfires. While heatwaves have become the new norm, the United Nations believe that change in the weather has to happen in 2021. Citing a “war on nature,” the UN believes that the future needs a free planet of carbon pollution.
New reports suggest that 2020 was a record-breaking year with fossil fuel extractions that trigger global warming. If the world continues to wage war on the Earth’s weather, it could be detrimental to future generations, as well as our own.
Danger On The Rise
According to the UN, if carbon pollution exists at this level continuously, there are going to be devastating repercussions. Between hurricanes, floods, and cyclones, there is going to be no sports, no Betway Cricket, or even life in general. The report cited that this year featured an average 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit increase in warmth which was caused by heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas.
Most heat that is trapped goes into the world’s oceans. As a result, the ocean temperature has been recorded at record high levels. Altogether, the year 2020 will go down as one of the three hottest years in history on record. The experts don’t see the temperatures going down either unless change happens. The experts believe that the weather will increase each year leading up to the year 2024. That could pose the potential of all-time global warming record numbers in back-to-back years if that is the case.
What Can Be Done?
For the numbers to go down, the top industries in India, as well as around the world, are going to need to make emission cuts. If companies can make carbon pollution cuts and make public commitments to limit emissions, this could lower the global temperature by as much as 0.5 degrees Celsius just as a start.
Kicking off that idea is China and the U.S.President-elect Joe Biden who has pledged net-zero carbon emissions. The leading experts are hopeful that countries can find a way to not add more heat-trapping gasses to the atmosphere than what trees and new technologies can remove. If not, the climate could be on the brink of catastrophe.
Clean Energy
While countries spend trillions of dollars to recover from the economic shutdown, countries need to find a way that emphasizes clean energy. Fossil fuel usage has dramatically increased to help reap the economic losses that were wiped away by the pandemic. In a perfect world, nations would stop funding fossil fuels, but that is never going to happen. Poor countries do not have the financial resources to promote clean, safe energy and rely on what they have.
Coal, oil, and gas cannot continue to be the primary source of energy. If the world is going to move towards a safer life, then a new form of clean energy needs to be used. However, how much will that cost? How much will it damage businesses? These are all questions that have been asked and the experts do not have an answer just yet.
