Climate Facts: Global warming likely to worsen insect-borne infections, says IPCC

The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can prove difficult to digest. TheCable’s climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.

Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:

• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says about 1,000 cities across the world will experience average summer temperature of 35˚C by 2050.

• UNEP said this figure, representing about triple the current number, may increase by 800 percent to reach 1.6 billion by mid-century if green house gas (GHG) emissions are not reduced.

• The United Nations (UN) says global-mean sea level has risen rapidly in the last 3,000 years. 

• The organisation noted that global-mean sea level is rising and accelerating due to human-induced global warming… driven by the melting of land ice and the expansion of seawater as it warms.

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says global warming will worsen the risk of malaria, dengue and other insect-borne infections in the tropics.