PARIS: Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. With only one degree of warming so far, Earth has seen a crescendo of droughts, heatwaves, and storms ramped up by rising seas. "How fast we get to a 2°C world" is critical, Mitchell told AFP. (File pix)A 2°C world will also "show significant negative impact on the rates of economic growth," Pretis told AFP. Even in a 2°C world, the number of people affected year by flooding could approach 200 million by 2300, the study calculated.

Source: New Strait Times April 02, 2018 02:15 UTC