Several cities including Mumbai, Chennai can go underwater, warns new IPCC report
A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate change has a serious warning for India and several other countries.
IPCC in its latest report warned that India must act now or else climate change will result in extreme weather conditions in the country. India needs to increase the pace toward climate change as six Indian port cities - Chennai, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Surat, and Visakhapatnam are sinking gradually day by day.
Effect of Climate change in India
A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate change has a serious warning for India and several other countries.
The report published on Monday (August 9, 2021) claimed that the coastal areas will see continued sea-level rise throughout the 21st century, contributing to more frequent and severe coastal flooding in low-lying areas and coastal erosion with extreme sea-level events that previously occurred once in 100 years could happen every year by the end of this century.
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NASA's Prediction
With the publication of the report, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has also created a sea level projection tool that makes data on future sea level rise from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change more easily accessible to people around the world.
Using the information from this data, there is a threat that a rising sea level would submerge 12 of the coastal cities in India by the end of this century including Mumbai, Chennai, Kochi and Visakhapatnam, among others.
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Mumbai
Chennai
Cochin
Vishakhapatnam
Other cities on the list
The other Indian cities that the IPCC report warned of are Bhavnagar (2.70 feet), Mormugao (2.06 feet), Okha 1.96 (feet), Paradip (1.93 feet), Tuticorin (1.9 feet), Kandla (1.87 feet), Mangalore (1.87 feet), Khidirpur (0.49 feet).
If the corrective steps to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, and reduce them rapidly are not taken shortly, then the country will witness more drastic effects of climate change.
This is to be noted that India is one of the most vulnerable countries for climate change and it will witness extreme environmental conditions of heavy rainfall, drought, increased heat waves if it does not manage its GHG emission.
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