189 countries have signed up to the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to two degrees, or ideally 1.5 degrees Celsius. But how might our planet change if humanity fails to achieve this?

Glacial melt, wildfires, drought, flooding disasters: the effects of the human-caused greenhouse effect are already being felt in many parts of the world. Yet global efforts to pursue an effective, shared climate policy are not going far enough for many. A recent long-term forecast supports this view.

Up until now, when environmental researchers developed future models calculating the influence of greenhouse gas emissions on the climate, they mostly used the year 2100 as the boundary for their climate projections. According to Christopher Lyon and other researchers at Canadian and British universities, however, the coming turn of the century is no longer a sufficient benchmark...

Read and see the possible scenarios on welt.de!