Don’t buy coastal properties’: UN scientists issue stark warning on climate

No part of the planet will be spared a climate crisis as oceans warm, and glaciers and ice sheets melt, according to a pivotal report by United Nations scientists.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns one billion people will be affected as soon as 2050 because of rising sea levels, water shortages and food insecurity.
The report, compiled by more than 100 leading climate scientists, calls for urgent, ambitious and coordinated action.

Experts have warned against buying coastal properties as research shows there will be unprecedented ice melt in the next 30 years.

Extreme sea level events that used to occur once a century will strike every year on many coasts by 2050, no matter whether climate heating emissions are curbed or not, according to a landmark report by the world’s scientists.

But far worse impacts will hit without urgent action to cut fossil fuel emissions, including eventual sea level rise of more than 4 metres in the worst case, an outcome that would redraw the map of the world and harm billions of people.

Via The Guardian