Extreme weather in Antarctica, including ocean heat waves and ice loss, is set to become more intense unless urgent policy action reduces the burning of fossil fuels, a new study has found—the latest to sound the alarm on the damage climate change is unleashing.
Extreme weather in Antarctica, including ocean heat waves and ice loss, is set to become more intense unless urgent policy action reduces the burning of fossil fuels, a new study has found—the latest to sound the alarm on the damage climate change is unleashing.
«It is virtually certain that continued greenhouse gas emissions will lead to increases in the size and frequency of events» as the world gets dangerously close to exceeding the 1.5C warming limit laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science. «We cannot rule out future cascades where extreme events may have wide-ranging linked impacts in multiple realms.»
Scientists have become increasingly alarmed on how the Antarctic ice has struggled to grow back after hitting an all-time low in February—a deviation so extreme from the normal that it’s been dubbed a » six sigma event,» or once-in-a-7.
