What Would Happen If The Earth Became 2 Degrees Warmer

What would happen if Earth became 2º C (4.6º F) warmer.

In 2015, the Paris Agreement declared that the world should try to keep Earth's warming trend to well below 2°C by 2100. Here's what would happen if temperatures did increase by 2° C. Sea levels will likely rise by 1.6 feet. Flooding coastlines worldwide. While the amount of fresh water may increase for high latitudes, East Africa, and parts of India and Sahel, subtropical regions may lose nearly one-third of its fresh water.

Making matters worse, heat waves could intensify. Tropical regions may experience heat waves for up to 3 months which will affect the growth of certain staple crops. These areas will likely produce less wheat and corn but slightly more soy and rice.Which could affect overall diets worldwide. Likewise, North Asia may see a boost in soy crops. Growing up to a quarter more soy each year.

For sea life, the situation is more dire. Warmer oceans will do irreversible damage to 99% of coral reefs. As the reefs die off, it will disrupt ecosystems for up to 9 million different species. This scenario was forecasted by the European Geosciences Union in 2016. In 2017, another team of scientists estimated there's a 95% chance Earth will warm more than 2 ºC by 2100.

Bleak forecasts may not be enough to stop humans from warming Earth. But at least they're a guide on how to prepare for a frightening future.

[SierraRamblesALot]

Even if you don’t believe in global warming we can all agree that we should try to save resources by using less plastic, wood, etc follows by finding greener solutions to gasoline so our sky isn’t as cloudly as it is in Beijing. We should still be taking steps to reuse and recycle instead of wasting all our resources and going “well shit” in 100yrs.

[mylifeisamememylifeispathe]

I'll be dead by 2100 such a sad life

[garyabbot]

I'd probably turn my heating down by two degrees to compensate

[jonahrodriguez]

For a multitude of reasons, RIP this world...

[rie]

I'm shocked, I never knew it could be that dangerous for the earth to heat up by only 2 degrees!

[thatsanaurnaur]

Finally using Celcuis instead of Fahrenheit.

[marcgabrielferrer]

1:04 why does that coral reef look like a girl stretching out her legs? please tell me im not the only one who sees that 🤣🤣

[deletedaccount]

Let’s just move to Antarctica in the future

[GrayMindedSoul]

We could build a bigass AC in the space

[vrfuekd]

The thing that sucks about this whole thing is that as everyday humans we can't do much about it it's only the governments that can

[iwishthatiwasjustacloud]

Well goodbye earth, you've been quite the sacrificial friend

[lostn]

can you do a video on what would happen if the world got 2 degrees COOLER?

[limanino]

Can we paint white every building to help?

[goodjoja]

Nooo! We should do our best to stop this!

[intothemaze]

2 degrees warmer than what temperature, exactly? Has anyone stated a baseline? Is it the global temperature average of 2015?

[mikehanen]

When u come out of the ice age one would think it would get warmer, but it seems part of the earth is having abnormal cold weather.

[vhanla]

What about oxygen originated from ocean plants?

[clips.u]

*Humans keeps burning the earth and they complain that "it's hot!"*

[jomolololo]

The thought that at 2100 we wont be advanced enough to handle this situation is mind boogling, by that time, this wont even be a main issue

[grindsmore]

There's rain in the freaking Arctic.

RAIN.