The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can be difficult to understand.
TheCable’s quick climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straightforward explanations.
Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says warming over land is larger and more than twice as high in the Arctic.
- The ocean helps mitigate the impacts of climate change and absorbs around 23 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions generated by human activities, according to the United Nations.
- The UN said the ocean has also absorbed more than 90 percent of the excess heat in the climate system.
- According to the IPCC, while benefits for air quality would come quickly, it could take 20 to 30 years to see global temperatures stabilise.
- Extreme sea level events that previously occurred once in 100 years could happen every year by the end of this century, the organisation said.
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