UN warns next 5 years could be warmest recorded

UN warns of threshold

CLIMATE CHANGE

UN warns of climate threshold

There's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.

UN warns of climate threshold

There's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.

UN warns of climate threshold

There's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.

'More likely than not' world will soon see 1.5°C of warming – WMO

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'More likely than not' world will soon see 1.5C of warming: WMO

For the first time ever, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) of warming within the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday.