Global Warming Will Exceed Limit, UN Says in a Report that Maps Path to Get Back Below Danger Zone
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Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate accord because of warming from the burni…
Since the Paris agreement, limiting warming to one and a half degrees has been a common horizon, yet the planet is about to cross it in the next few years. The idea of a climate exceedance, followed by a reversal, is now the new bet of climatologists.
Global warming will probably exceed within a few years the threshold of 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial era, the most ambitious limit indicated by the Paris Agreement. The alarm comes from the new report Limiting Overshoot of the United Nations Environment Programme, which now shifts the attention on how long the overflow will last and on what maximum temperature will be reached. ... Read more The article The world will exceed 1.5 deg…
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