Global Warming:
A Code Red for Humanity
Climate Change has been called a as a ‘Code Red for Humanity’ by Antonio Guterres, U.N. Secretary-General in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC Climate Report) (IPCC Report Press Release, 9th August 2021). The report indicated that human-induced global heating has arrived with a vengeance and will see Earth’s average temperature reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels around 2030, a decade earlier than projected just three years ago. As a result the opportunity to limit the impact of climate change is rapidly narrowing. Another U.N. Climate report states that the planetary crisis is no longer a threat but our current reality.
Scientists from all over the world are repeatedly emphasizing that global warming is the greatest danger of present times. Both print and electronic media inform people daily of this dangerous situation. Global Warming and Climate change has made earth virtually inhabitable. According to the report from NASA’s top-representatives, ‘Earth in Crisis’, “we have already reached a dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.” (p. 35)
Scientists have been predicting the negative effects of climate change for decades now. However, by the second decade of the 21st century these have now reached critical levels. People the world over are witnessing the most perilous effects of climate change such as the drastic shrinking of glaciers, heaviest rainfall, the rapid thawing of permafrost and forest fires in the coldest areas like Canada and Serbia as well as rising sea levels and increasing temperatures worldwide. Today, virtually no place remains unaffected.
Climate Change has been called a as a ‘Code
Red for Humanity’ by Antonio Guterres, U.N.
Secretary-General in the latest Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC Climate Report)
(IPCC Report Press Release, 9th August 2021).
We have been hearing of modern scientific observations, stating that climatic changes will render our earth uninhabitable by 2050: ‘By 2050 the Earth Will be Arid and Empty.’ This seemed a far-off assumption. However, reports coming over the last 10 years have been re-affirming this.
Reports based on the findings of international scientists, such as “Doomsday Not Far” (Hindustan Times, December 8, 2007) and an Indian TV programme, ‘Five Years to Doomsday’, telecast on December 20, 2007, warned that climate change is now turning into climate disaster. As a result, the day is fast approaching when human beings, regardless of where they are living, will no longer be able to inhabit this planet earth.
