Friday 22 July 2016

Very Extreme weather lies ahead:How prepared are we?

The 2016 World Meteorological Day draws attention of the World to the many episodes of extreme weather which lie ahead due to the devastating effects of climate change.

 
Celebrated on March 23,  with theme "HOTTER, DRIER, WETTER, FACE THE FUTURE", governments and communities across the globe were reminded of the
adverse effects of climate Change on natural resources, humans and environment.

 It has been unequivocally demonstrated that, human influence has been responsible for warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, changes in the global water cycle,  reductions in snow and ice,  global mean sea level rise, and  changes in some climate extremes.

 There has been growing evidence since the industrial revolution periods that human activities have led to these changes.

 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has also established that emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere is one of the major contributors to global warming and the Climate Change being experienced all over the globe.

 The emission of greenhouse gases have continued to increase to unprecedented levels since the industrial times leading to increase in air and ocean temperature.

 The global average air temperature of the earth is already 1°C hotter than it was at the start of the twentieth century. 

The international community has therefore unanimously agreed that there is need for bold action towards the reduction of the emissions as demonstrated during COP-21 meeting in Paris in December 2015. 

At that meeting, Governments adopted the Paris Agreement to "hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C."

But, how is Nigerian Government and its people gearing up to contend with the impending  terrible weather that could swallow all, if measures are not taken now?

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