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World likely to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027 [1]
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Date: 2023-05-17
Another day, another warning, as global emissions continue to rise. [Link to the Guardian]
World likely to breach 1.5C climate threshold by 2027
The breaching of the crucial 1.5C threshold, which scientists have warned could have dire consequences, should be only temporary, according to research from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). However, it would represent a marked acceleration of human impacts on the global climate system, and send the world into “uncharted territory”, the UN agency warned.
Prof Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the WMO, said: “This report does not mean that we will permanently exceed the 1.5C specified in the Paris agreement, which refers to long-term warming over many years. However, WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency.” Global average surface temperatures have never before breached the 1.5C threshold. The highest average in previous years was 1.28C above pre-industrial levels.
I really have nothing else to add, I am just too pissed off, all the fluffing and faffing about by the world's leaders does not cut it any more.
I know how Cassandra must have felt.
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