What Happens If The World Warms Up?

Since 1900, the average temperature on the planet has increased by 0.74 degrees Celsius and the UK’s sea level has risen by about 10 centimetres.

Further global rises are expected, as well as more extreme weather events like flooding and drought. Climate change’ refers to changes in the earth’s temperature over the last 100 years.

Two degrees is the target for limiting the global temperature increase. But even that limit will have a dramatic effect on the world’s climate.

 

Our planet’s climate is influenced by many factors, from massive events on the Sun to the growth of microscopic creatures in the oceans. But the world is warming and this warming is due to human activity increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

 

A world only 2°C warmer, or 3.6°F, would be one that is much different than the world we live in today, but what does that actually look like?