See it on the maps: These parts of Boston, Revere, and Quincy are vulnerable to rising sea levels
Humans are contributing to climate change at an “unprecedented” pace, the IPCC found. These areas will feel the first impact.
A major new report released early Monday morning contained dire projections for the warming planet and revealed that humans are contributing to changes to the climate at an “unprecedented” pace, Amanda Kaufman and Maria Elena Little Endara of the Boston Globe reported.
The report, by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, found that the world has already warmed roughly 1.1 degrees Celsius since the 19th century, already approaching the 1.5-degree level, at which the Paris Climate Agreement seeks to limit warming.
The report warns that the window to address the adverse effects of climate change is narrowing, leaving open the question about what can be done to blunt the worst effects of human activity on the planet.
One measure of a warming planet and climate change is rising sea levels. As oceans warm because overall global temperatures are rising, seawater expands and causes water levels to rise, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sea levels also rise when land-based ice, like glaciers and ice sheets, melts, adding water to the ocean.
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