Question: UN body known as Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will publish its report in-
a) January 2022
b) February 2023
c) February 2022
d) None of these
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:-
- A latest report by the United Nations (UN) has warned serious consequences of global warming if continue unchecked.
- This report is prepared by a UN body known as Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- The report says that consequences of unchecked global warming for billions of humans as well upon other natural forms will be catastrophic.
- It should be known that earlier climate models suggested it would take nearly another century of unabated carbon pollution to spawn heatwaves exceeding the absolute limit of human tolerance.
- Now the updated projections by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn of unprecedented killer heatwaves on the near future.
- According to the news agency AFP, the IPCC has prepared a 4,000-page report, which will be released in February 2022.
- The report said that if the world warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius – 0.4 degrees above today’s level – 14% of the population will be exposed to severe heatwaves at least once every five years .
- Worst hit will be megacities in the developing world that generate additional heat of their own from Karachi to Kinshasa, Manila to Mumbai, Lagos to Manaus.
- It is easier to survive a high temperature day if the air is bone-dry than it is to survive a lower temperature day with very high humidity, according to the report.
- That steam-bath mix has its own yardstick, known as wet-bulb temperature.
By – Rajesh Tripathi
Links:-
https://www.deccanherald.com/science-and-environment/after-covid-the-next-big-killer-could-be-heatwaves-un-1000507.html
https://www.hindustantimes.com/environment/un-report-warns-of-grim-repercussions-if-global-warming-continues-101624420142339.html