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Fixing Climate Change

Earth has been experiencing drastic changes in its biosphere. This year 2015 has been recorded as hottest year and we have observed impacts of Climate Change such as droughts, extreme events, heat waves, sea level rise which is causing an alarming impact on food, water, ecosystems, lives and human health. Among species human are the most adaptive to changing the environment but until the climate system reaches its tipping point. A 4°C warmer world can, and must be, avoided – we need to hold warming below 2°C," said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. It is expected that even if countries fulfill current emissions-reduction pledges climate could warm from the current global mean temperature of 0.8°C above pre-industrial levels, to as high as 4°C by 2100. What does our future hold? Industrial revolution took place between 1820 and 1840 which transferred world from wood and other biofuels to coal as source of energy. According to NASA, within 64 years from 1950 to 2014