[url][/url]Goldman Sachs released a 34-page analysis of the impact of climate change. And the results are terrifying.

A Goldman Sachs report on the impact of climate change on cities across the world makes for grim reading. Rising temperatures would lead to changing disease patterns, more intense and longer-lasting heatwaves, more destructive weather events, and pressure on the availability and quality of water for drinking and agriculture.

Major cities were also highlighted at risk of flooding with parts of New York, Tokyo, and Lagos all at risk of being partially submerged.
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Goldman Sachs released a report on the effect of climate change on cities around the world and the results made for grim reading.
The bank's Global Markets Institute, led by Amanda Hindlian, warned of "significant" potential risks to the world's largest cities, which are especially vulnerable to more frequent storms, higher temperatures, rising sea levels, and storm surges.

Cities generate about 80% of global GDP and are home to more than half of the world's population, a share that Goldman says, citing the United Nations, is projected to reach two-thirds by 2050. About 40% of the global population lives within 100 kilometers of a coast, it says, and 1 in 10 live in areas less than 10 meters above sea level.

Goldman highlighted three cities which would be subject to those storm surges and in the future could face harmful flooding — New York, Tokyo, and Lagos. Miami, Alexandria, Dhaka, and Shanghai face major flood risks due to being less than 11 meters above sea level.

Goldman's researchers said that when starting the study they took a broad consensus that human activity, namely emission of greenhouse gasses "is causing the earth to warm in ways that are affecting the climate."

Natural ecosystems would be damaged, and risks to human health would rise, as well as pressures on food and drinking water.
Agriculture would also be massively affected: "Warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns could reduce yields and nutritional quality as well change growing seasons and agricultural zones around the world."

Goldman gave some fairly stark warnings about potential outcomes:
- More frequent, more intense, and longer-lasting heatwaves. The consequences will affect human health, productivity, economic activity, and agriculture. "Higher surface temperatures could exacerbate the warming process by causing permafrost to melt, releasing further methane and CO2 into the atmosphere."

- Destructive weather events, including storms, winds, flooding and fires. It's not just New York, Tokyo and Lagos. "Other major low-lying coastal or already flood-prone cities include Shanghai, Dhaka, Mumbai and Karachi – each of which has a population of 15 million people or more." Changing disease patterns. "Warmer temperatures could cause disease vectors to migrate from the tropics to regions where people have less immunity; this is true not only for viruses like malaria and dengue fever but also for water-borne and food-borne diseases."

- Shifting agricultural patterns and food shortages. "Livestock could be affected by higher temperatures and reduced water supplies. Ocean acidification is likely to put stress on aquatic populations and affect current fishing patterns. Some of these changes are already underway. Some climate scientists, for example, estimate that coral reefs will be all but extinct over the course of the century due to ocean acidification."

- Water. "Half of the world's population will live in water-stressed areas as soon as 2025," Goldman notes, citing the World Health Orgnization. "Even in non-stressed areas, the quality of surface water could deteriorate as more rain and storms drive erosion and the release of toxins. These dynamics could affect everything from the availability of drinking water for people to a shortage of water for livestock and crops (with negative effects for the food supply) to decreases in hydroelectric power generation."

The bank said that all those factors would "affect economic activity, damage infrastructure – from buildings to transportation to water and waste-management systems – and disproportionately harm vulnerable residents."

"Despite the uncertainty around the timing and scale of the impact, it may be prudent for some cities to start investing in adaptation now," Goldman says. "Urban adaptation could drive one of the largest infrastructure build-outs in history. Given the scale of the task, urban adaptation will likely need to draw on innovative sources of financing."

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So what's the solution to all these problems listed out?

MadeBlack10:
So what's the solution to all these problems listed out?

According to one school of though, the earth's climate destruction is already beyond redemption. This is supported by Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior.

The other school of thought says that we can only do little as the problem lies in our planetary solar system, i.e. the earth's planetary orbit around the solar system dictates the temperature of the earth just like the moon's gravitational pull is producing waves in our oceans.

We may have to find another planet in the galaxy to colonize if this continues unabated.

Lekki ppl shld jus buy canoe and life jackets in advance

eTECTIV:
Lekki ppl shld jus buy canoe and life jackets in advance

Based on reports the whole of Lagos will be affected because Lagos is flat.

Resultant effect of urbanization, continuous craving for civilization coupled with i don't care attitude of everyone of us..... We all jointly made the drum, let's dance to the tune.

creedencity:
Resultant effect of urbanization, continuous craving for civilization coupled with i don't care attitude of everyone of us..... We all jointly made the drum, let's dance to the tune.

Or maybe it's the solar system?

Hnmm

Major cities were also highlighted at risk of flooding with parts of New York, Tokyo, and Lagos all at risk of being partially submerged. 

Since all these more developed cities are at risk for the same flooding that Lagos is about to experience.
The best thing is for Lagos State Government to see the measures these other cities will take and seek out help in good time.

God bless Lagos state.
God bless Nigeria.

Wow, sad state of affair.

claycares:

According to one school of though, the earth's climate destruction is already beyond redemption. This is supported by Greta Thunberg, schoolgirl climate change warrior.

The other school of thought says that we can only do little as the problem lies in our planetary solar system, i.e. the earth's planetary orbit around the solar system dictates the temperature of the earth just like the moon's gravitational pull is producing waves in our oceans.

We may have to find another planet in the galaxy to colonize if this continues unabated.

Una don dey chop craze

Time to go to Mars

Tinubu will not take this report at all. This is the time to scatter Nigerias asset across different states. This is a disaster i don't think we can avoid, but politics will not allow them. Imagine spending billions building railway to north from Lagos then it gets submerged. It's time to look at the Niger delta region.

Watch some people storm this place with Lagos is overrated, lagos is this lagos is that yet if u tell them they going to lagos tomorrow them no go sleep lol let that time come first all those state wey flood don almost finish them shey research no reach there Abeg

Make I go buy life jacket and lifebuoy for my family.

We'll be fine

Why is rain still falling in October?

Ok

Impossible




With all the sacrifices wey we don carry for adamo orisha

Good news,,,,, very soon afonjas will be wiped out from the earth


Thunder fire Cowhari and his surpporters

:They finished buying land. now buying water and sandfilled.
It is well..

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We have been hearing this for a very long time

MadeBlack10:
So what's the solution to all these problems listed out?

Trump doesn't believe there's anything like climate change, so he pulled the US of A out of the Paris Accord.

The Paris Accord or The Paris Agreement called for a balance of climate finance between adaptation and mitigation, and specifically underscoring the need to increase adaptation support for parties most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including Least Developed Countries like Nigeria.

Goldman has released this study in the hope of convincing Trump's Administration that ignoring climate change may spell doom for our world.

Lagos is divine nothing will happen to us here

Time to go Mars

All those eko Atlantic na underwater e go dey

Soon na Atlantis e go be underwater

Climate change is a big threat to the whole world.

Some days ago, youths in major cities all over the world were involved in protest and public march in their thousands to create awareness as to the dangers of climate change. While this was going on Nigerian youths were busy killing dia sef over bbnaija, very soon y'all be watching bbnaija underwater. Yeye generation.

SenecaTheYonger:
Why is rain still falling in October?

O boi see kweshon oh, we be God ni?

The sad thing about Nigeria is that we will do little or nothing to mitigate the effects of this prediction until it happens and destroys so much. That's when we'd start applying a fire brigade approach to remedy an already disastrous situation.