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international organization has analyzed that the global temperature will be 1.5 degrees higher than pre-industrial levels within 20 years. The faster warming is 10 years earlier than previously predicted.



Correspondent Seo Dong-gyun.



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Kiribati is a small island country in the South Pacific.



The seawater ran all the way to the front of the house, and even the yard was filled with water.



[Kiribati residents: I am afraid that the sea level cannot stop rising.] In



Kiribati, with an average elevation of 2 m above sea level, the sea level rises by 2 cm every year due to global warming.



The whole country is on the verge of disappearing within 50 years.



The average global temperature has already risen by 1.1 degrees Celsius compared to 1900 years ago, before industrialization.



Looking at the 170 years of change, the temperature has risen sharply since the late 1900s.



The climate crisis is fast approaching, but the IPCC, an intergovernmental consultative body on climate change under the United Nations,


suggested that the marginal line for temperature rise to prevent climate catastrophe is not to rise more than 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.



The timing of reaching that temperature was estimated around 2030-2050, but the forecast has been revised in the last three years.



It is said that the time when the temperature will rise by 1.5 degrees will come within 20 years at the latest, 10 years earlier than before.



A recent study found that water droplets in clouds were analyzed to be larger than known, reflecting less sunlight, thereby increasing the effect of temperature rise.



It warned that extreme heat waves would be eight times more likely to occur.



[Ye Sang-wook/Professor of Ocean Convergence Engineering, Hanyang University: Arctic ice, physical processes in the ocean, along with these things (a lot of unknowns), some adaptation plans for the future need to be made more quickly… .] The



report says humans are the cause of global warming and calls for responsible global action towards carbon neutrality to prevent climate catastrophe.



(Video editing: Kim Seon-tak, video source: YouTube United Nations, CG: Jo Soo-in·Seo Hyun-joong)