Letter to BS: Extreme weather patterns advertise reality of climate change

The report by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has come as a stark warning. Unless drastic action is taken to limit global warming to 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as against 2 degrees Celsius agreed on, the future of the planet will be imperiled. The very survival of humans and other life-forms hinges on the efforts made now. It is no hyperbole to say the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere at the current rate due to acceleration of the carbon-intensive economy is a recipe for the end of the human civilisation itself.

Extreme weather patterns