New York: Scientists in Hawaii have claimed that if greenhouse gas emissions are not contained, temperatures across the world will rise to an unprecedented level by 2047.
According to a study by scientists at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, within 35 years even the lowest monthly dips in temperatures will be hotter than we’ve experienced in the past 150 years.
The tropical countries will be the first to exceed the limits of historical extremes and experience an unabated heat wave that would threaten biodiversity and heavily populated countries with the fewest resources to adapt, a university press release stated citing the study.
Tropical areas are projected to experience unprecedented climates first – within the next decade, according to the study titled ‘The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability’.
The study also claims the average location on earth will experience a radically different climate by 2047.
On the contrary, if greenhouse gas emissions can be stabilised the global mean climate departure will be in 2069.
“The results shocked us. Regardless of the scenario, changes will be coming soon,” Camilo Mora of the university’s College of Social Sciences’ Department of Geography said.
“Within my generation, whatever climate we were used to will be a thing of the past,” he added.
