If warming isn’t halted at 1.5 degrees Celsius, sea levels will rise high enough to displace around 280 million people — four times the current number of worldwide refugees, which is at a record high
Photo: JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP/Getty Images The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is considered the gold standard of assessing the scientific consensus on global warming; if there is an overarching criticism of IPCC reports, it’s that they’re a little too conservative in their presentation of the threat at hand. So when a draft of its newest report stated that if the planet warms beyond 1.
Sea life will take also take a profound hit, as “the same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale,” the report warns. Fish stocks could decline substantially from their already depleted numbers: Last year, the UN determined that a third of all fisheries were being tapped at an unsustainable rate. In the sea at large, the number of fish and marine life declined by 50 percent between 1972 and 2012.
The dangers of a world of two-degrees of warming were established last year, in an IPCC report that predicted the possibility of a climate catastrophe. New York’s David Wallace-Wells described life on that Earth:
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