Global temperature rises to exceed 1.5 Celsius 'within a few years', UNEP says
- On Wednesday, The United Nations Environment Programme issued a report titled Limiting Overshoot, warning that the world will breach the 1.5-degree climate threshold within the next few years and urging governments to accelerate emission cuts and carbon removal.
- Earth is currently 1.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, while current policies project temperatures reaching 2.6 degrees by 2100; the United Nations report advises policymakers to prepare for and navigate a future that corrects course.
- Climate scientist Andrew Weaver from the University of Victoria noted the 1.5 limit is not "some magical climate cliff," explaining that global temperatures will follow a hump-shaped path of more warming before cooling by century's end.
- Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change director Vishal Prasad said, "We know what 1.5 , and what anything beyond it, means for our future, our families, our culture and our environment," warning of threats to island communities.
- Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded an "overshoot of ambition," urging nations to accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuels; every five years of delay adds a tenth of a degree to peak warming, according to Imperial College London climate scientist Joeri Rogelj.
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<p>The Earth will soon exceed the safe temperature limit — the UN recognizes the loss of a chance to avoid part of the effects of warming. The world can still lower its temperature after exceeding the limit.</p>
On Wednesday, the UN presented ways to contain global warming once the very symbolic threshold of +1.5°C has been crossed.
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UN Issues Dire Warning On Climate Change
The Associate Press reports: 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 … The post UN Issues Dire Warning On Climate Change appeared first on Joe.My.God..
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