How long do we have before climate change is irreversible

But at 3pm on saturday afternoon, it all changed.However, if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the rise in global temperatures would begin to flatten within a few years.Revealing just how little time we have left to tackle the climate crisis before the planet is past a tipping point of irreversible change.The sea level rise is a much slower thing, so it will take a long time to happen, but we will lock.People have imagined that if we stopped emitting carbon dioxide the climate would go back to normal in 100 years, 200 years;

Monday that there were 7 years, 101 days, 17 hours, 29 minutes and 22 seconds until earth's carbon budget is.Now, the clock reads the precise.At two degrees, the ice sheets will begin their collapse, 400 million more people will suffer from water scarcity, major cities in the equatorial band of the planet will become unliveable and even.On average, the researchers also found that expected warming was a little lower, by about 10 to 15%.Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era — and of human civilization.

We have 12 years to act on climate change before the world as we know it is lost.