UN Report: Only Drastic Action <br />Will Avert Consequences <br />of Climate Change.<br />The United Nations' annual <br />"emissions gap" report was <br />released on Tuesday.<br />The report states that global <br />temperatures are on track to <br />rise by as much as 7° F by 2100.<br />Such a rise in temperature would lead to rising seas, a massive loss of coral reefs and unbearable heat in the world's hottest regions.<br />Our collective failure to act <br />early and hard on climate <br />change means we now must <br />deliver deep cuts to emissions. <br />We need to catch up on the years <br />in which we procrastinated, Inger Andersen, U.N. Environment Program, <br />via 'The Washington Post'.<br />Every year of delay beyond 2020 brings a need for faster cuts, which become increasingly expensive, unlikely and impractical, U.N. Climate Change Report, <br />via 'The Washington Post'.<br />To avert the bleak predictions, <br />the report finds that global <br />greenhouse gasses must begin <br />to fall annually by almost 8% beginning in 2020.<br />In the past decade, <br />global emissions have <br />seen an annual rise of 1.5%.<br />Carbon emission in the U.S. <br />rose 2.7% in 2018, due to the <br />Trump administration's rollback of <br />Obama-era regulations concerning climate.<br />Investment in renewable <br />energy by developing <br />nations and in China has <br />also dropped dramatically
