Limit Rise: Temperatures and Km Miles

limit rise: Almost 200 governments promised in the 2015 Paris climate agreement to limit a rise in average global temperatures to well below 2 C 3.6 F above pre-industrial times by 2100, according to The Japan Times. Worldwide, temperatures are up about 1 C 1.8 F . On Svalbard, the envisaged rise in temperatures would thaw the frozen ground underpinning many buildings, roads and airports, cause more avalanches, slushflows and landslides, melt glaciers and threaten wildlife such as polar bears and seals that rely on sea ice to hunt. The thaw on the remote Svalbard islands, home to 2,300 people and where the main village of Longyearbyen is 1,300 km 800 miles from the North Pole, highlights risks in other parts of the Arctic from Alaska to Siberia. ; Average temperatures on Svalbard have leaped between 3 and 5 degrees Celsius 5.4-9.0 Fahrenheit since the early 1970s and could rise by a total of 10 C 18F by 2100 if world greenhouse gas emissions keep climbing, the study said. A 10 degree warming, with the implications for Arctic nature, ice-dependent species, will be devastating, Climate and Environment Minister Ola Elvestuen told Reuters. Two people died in 2015 when an avalanche destroyed 10 houses in Longyearbyen. Norway will have to increase investment to relocate buildings from avalanche paths and drill deeper infrastructure foundations as permafrost thaws, the report said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.