More than 25 percent of the Earth will experience serious drought and desertification by the year 2050 if global warming is not curbed, according to a new study by the journal Nature Climate Change.
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More than 25 percent of the Earth will experience serious drought and desertification by the year 2050 if the attempts made by the Paris climate agreement to curb global warming are not met, according to a new study by the journal Nature Climate Change. (emphasis added)
The study, which was published on Monday, claims that if the Earth’s average yearly temperature is raised by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in the next 32 years, the areas of the world experiencing “aridification,” or drying of the planet, will increase.
“Our research predicts that aridification would emerge over about 20 to 30 percent of the world’s land surface by the time the global mean temperature change reaches 2 degrees Celsius,” said Manoj Joshi, the lead researcher of the study. “But two-thirds of the affected regions could avoid significant aridification if […]
I’m sure the people in 2/3 of the US are impressed by the abnormally warm winter we are having.
Amen. We’re in the deep freeze now. It’s not quite as bad as the blizzard of 1966.
Tiresome. Climate scientists do not know what is going to happen in 30 years..they can’t even get their computer models accurate today. I would rather focus on what we can do today to heal our land and our people than listen to the garbage coming from “consensus science” as if there were such a thing.