Areas in severe climate danger identified

Published today, a revealing scientific study produced by a team of climate experts has identified nine areas that are in extreme danger of exceeding critical thresholds, thresholds that once passed will not allow for recovery.

The scientists have warned of the severe danger these areas are in of abrupt and disastrous collapse before the century is out.

The study identifies the Greenland ice sheet and Arctic sea ice as the sites in most shocking danger and warns that it may already be too late to save these areas.

Scientists also warned of the vulnerable state of the Amazon rainforest, with its perishing rainfall rates that claim expanses of trees that will be unable to re-establish themselves.

The report also stresses that the climate system El Niño, affecting weather from North America to Africa, is likely to become more powerful.

Concerns were further expressed over the condition that will affect the Boreal forests in the North.

The climate experts have called for an early warning system to monitor these fragile areas; such was the strength of their concern.

The international team consisted of 52 environmental experts combining their responses to the issue with discussions held at the British embassy in Berlin by the 36 foremost researchers, who had been asked to rank regions in the risk of greatest climate change by the end of the century.

An environmental scientist at the University of East Anglia, Tim Lenton, stressed the idea that global warming will not occur as smoothly as people seem to think.

Lenton stated how some of the ecosystems identified will go into sudden decline when a warming threshold is reached.

He also elaborated into the idea that once thresholds, or ‘tipping points’ as they are more commonly known, are identified global warming controls can be informed and altered accordingly.