NEW DELHI: Researchers have sounded an alarm on a possibly “irreversible climate disaster” as 25 of the 35 planetary vital signs that help track climate change every year hit record levels.
Extreme weather events becoming more frequent, and intense and emissions from fossil fuels are at an all-time high — these are a couple of the 25 vital signs, the international team, including researchers from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Germany, said in a report.
Other vital signs they described included Earth’s average surface temperature, ocean heat, global sea levels and human population — all touching record highs. The human population has been increasing at roughly two lakh a day, they said.(PTI)
