A new study found that climate change is already hitting hard and will have dire consequences if people do not act now.
The website seeker.com reports that the government has released today another warning about climate change. The alarming report claims that people in the United States are already feeling the effects of global warming here and now.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program is producing the National Climate Assessment every 4 years. The current report that outlines the present and ongoing climate change effects on the country is the third in the current series.
The report is citing drought in some places and heavy rainfall and flooding in others, winter storms, more frequent and stronger hurricanes, as well as record temperatures in the last decade. The conclusion of the report is that global climate is changing and the global warming of the past 50 years is predominantly due to burning of fossil fuels and other human activities. This is also apparent in a wide range of observations across the United States.
A major U.N. report is also warning the global community about the dire outlook of climate change, according to Climate Central. In the next years, workers in fields and factories face an epidemic of heat-related injuries. As climate change takes hold, people's health, productivity and income will suffer dire consequences.
As outdoor employees in many regions have to slow down their pace, shift their work to cooler down and dusk hours and take longer breaks, productivity losses alone could rise by the year 2030 about $2 trillion. The report also says that the effects of heat stress are already evident among the 4 billion people who live in the tropical and subtropical regions.
The report is called Climate Change and Labor and it was jointly produced by the U.N. Development Program, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization. According to the report, in West Africa, since the 1960s, the number of very hot days each year has already doubled.
By 2030, in West Africa region, in South Asia and 10 regions in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it is estimated that around 2 percent of daylight hours will be shaved off the working day. This also has the potential to create an epidemic of heat-related injuries if the global average temperature will climb beyond 2°C.
