World has three years to prevent dangerous climate change, warn experts.

The world has three years to start making significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or face the prospect of dangerous global warming, experts have warned in an article in the prestigious journal Nature.

The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of
America's top carbon dioxide emitters 

Calling for world leaders to be guided by the scientific evidence rather than “hide their heads in the sand”, they said “entire ecosystems” were already beginning to collapse, summer sea ice was disappearing in the Arctic and coral reefs were dying from the heat.

The world could emit enough carbon to bust the Paris Agreement target of between 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius in anything from four to 26 years if current levels continue, the article said.

Read Ian Johnston’s story on the Independent - “World has three years to prevent dangerous climate change, warn experts.”