Scientists behind Code Red report sound alarm over Cambo oil field
Scientists behind the UN’s watershed report on climate change have questioned plans for a huge and contentious oil field off Shetland.
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Scientists behind the UN’s watershed report on climate change have questioned plans for a huge and contentious oil field off Shetland.
ambitiously slash carbon emissions in the coming decades. Sea levels, of course, wonât instantly rise by tens of feet: Miles-thick ice sheets take many centuries to thousands of years to melt. But, critically, humanity is already setting the stage for a relatively quick return to Pliocene climes, or climes at least significantly warmer than now. Itâs happening fast. When CO2 naturally increases in the atmosphere, pockets of ancient air preserved in ice show this CO2 rise happens gradually, over thousands of years. But today, carbon dioxide levels are skyrocketing as humans burn lo...