Earth Presses Hot Button And We Must Pay Attention

This week is not for good news. Aside from the rising number of COVID cases, with more being affected by the Delta variant, the world was jolted last Monday when the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN-IPCC) released a wake-up call via a report called “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.”

To put it in simple terms, touching only the tip of a melting iceberg, the report is an apocalyptic warning that “climate change will worsen in all places over the course of the coming years.”

“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land... and widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere have occurred.” The world is now experiencing the “side effects,” starting with the wildfires in California and Australia last year, to the wildfires in Greece and Turkey this month. Though some were reportedly caused by arson, scientists have categorically said that “a warmer climate due to human-caused climate change increased the risk of more extreme fire weather, driving larger fires in more areas that are historically not at risk.”