The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the Earth and it's on the knife edge of survival.
U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed talks about the G20 climate conference, U.N. emissions gap report and COP26.While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved.
But the decisions we make now about how much more carbon pollution Earth emits will mean “an incredibly large difference between how much ice we keep and how much we lose and how quickly," she said. “Once you start melting, that kind of enhances more melt,” said University of Manitoba ice scientist Julienne Stroeve.
The 2015 Paris climate agreement set a goal of limiting the warming of the Earth to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, or, failing that, keeping it under 2 degrees Celsius . The world has already gotten 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer since the late 1800s. For John Waghiyi Jr., the Arctic is not a number or an abstraction. It’s been home for 67 years, and he and other native Bering Sea elders have watched the Arctic change because of warming. The sea ice, which allows humans and polar bears to hunt, is shrinking in the summer.
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