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Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5℃ warming limit by 2024, major new report says
(The Conversation, 9 Oct 2020) The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by the World Meteorological Organisation warns this limit may be exceeded by 2024 – and the risk is growing.
The Paris climate agreement seeks to limit global warming to 1.5℃ this century. A new report by the World Meteorological Organisation warns this limit may be exceeded by 2024 – and the risk is growing.
This first overshoot beyond 1.5℃ would be temporary, likely aided by a major climate anomaly such as an El Niño weather pattern. However, it casts new doubt on whether Earth’s climate can be permanently stabilised at 1.5℃ warming.
This finding is among those just published in a report titled United in Science. We contributed to the report, which was prepared by six leading science agencies, including the Global Carbon Project.
The report also found while greenhouse gas emissions declined slightly in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they remained very high – which meant atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have continued to rise.
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15 Oct 2021: The climate disaster is here
30 Sep 2021: ‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis
27 Sep 2021: Children set for more climate disasters than their grandparents, research shows
20 Sep 2021: Children already have the facts. Now they need the tools to fix the climate crisis
9 Sep 2021: Climate tops list of global threats in EU ‘strategic foresight’ report
9 Sep 2021: Extreme sea levels could soon become annual events
9 Sep 2021: Earth’s tipping points could be closer than we think. Our current plans won’t work
6 Sep 2021: Climate change deniers are as slippery as those who justified the slave trade
6 Sep 2021: EU considers debt relief for countries hit by floods, wildfires
2 Sep 2021: 14 dead in New York region amid ‘historic’ flooding caused by Ida remnants
2 Sep 2021: Climate-driven extreme heat threatens $500 bln in new U.S. costs by 2050
30 Aug 2021: Greece’s deadly wildfires were sparked by 30 years of political failure
30 Aug 2021: Over-50s want climate crisis addressed ‘even if it leads to high prices’
26 Aug 2021: In a Summer of deadly deluges, new research shows how global warming fuels flooding
26 Aug 2021: What if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering?
30 Jul 2021: New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse
29 Jul 2021: The floods show London is now on the frontline of the climate emergency
29 Jul 2021: ‘Climate change has become real’: extreme weather sinks prime US tourism site
29 Jul 2021: Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
27 Jul 2021: Southern Europe battles wildfires as north cleans up after floods
26 Jul 2021: Flood-hit German homes face higher premiums as climate risks grow
26 Jul 2021: ‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate study
26 Jul 2021: Flash floods will be more common as climate crisis worsens, say scientists
22 Jul 2021: From China to Germany, floods expose climate vulnerability
20 Jul 2021: Britain issues first Amber Extreme Heat warning
19 Jul 2021: Merkel sees ‘surreal’ wreckage as Europe flood death toll tops 180
19 Jul 2021: As floods hit western Europe, scientists say climate change hikes heavy rain
15 Jul 2021: Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs
9 Jul 2021: Justin Trudeau’s love of fossil fuel will only make Canada’s extreme weather worse
8 Jul 2021: More carbon dioxide will dry world’s rainforests
8 Jul 2021: The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot
8 Jul 2021: What to know as climate change drives extreme heat
24 Jun 2021: ‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise
22 Jun 2021: As climate heat worsens, a hungrier world is likely
17 Jun 2021: ‘The next pandemic’: drought is a hidden global crisis, UN says
17 Jun 2021: Rising floods threaten Danish financial system
14 Jun 2021: Solve nature and climate together or not at all
11 Jun 2021: G7 leaders face make-or-break moment in climate crisis
11 Jun 2021: Pathway to global climate catastrophe is clear
7 Jun 2021: Climate crisis to shrink G7 economies twice as much as Covid-19, says research
31 May 2021: More than a third of heat deaths are tied to climate change, study says
28 May 2021: Fossil fuel use leads to worse and longer droughts
27 May 2021: Rising global temperatures 'inexorably closer' to climate tipping point - U.N.
25 May 2021: Faster Greenland ice melt could be unstoppable
21 May 2021: How we talk about the climate crisis is increasingly crucial to tackling it
20 May 2021: Climate crisis to put millions of British homes at risk of subsiding
17 May 2021: Asia’s cities are worst hit in warming world
29 Apr 2021: World will lose 10% of glacier ice even if it hits climate targets
26 Apr 2021: UN declares 2021 is ‘year for action’ on climate
15 Apr 2021: Climate heating may speed up to unexpected levels
15 Apr 2021: Climate crisis: Boris Johnson ‘too cosy’ with vested interests to take serious action
8 Apr 2021: Climate-blind borrowing risks 'credit crunch' for future generations
30 Mar 2021: Global warming could cut over 60 countries' credit ratings by 2030, study warns
29 Mar 2021: Plants will be hit as a warming world turns drier
25 Mar 2021: Small nuclear power plants no use in climate crisis
16 Mar 2021: World’s coastal cities face risk from land and sea
15 Mar 2021: Climate crisis: recent European droughts 'worst in 2,000 years'
8 Mar 2021: Global heating pushes tropical regions towards limits of human livability
5 Mar 2021: Antarctic warming speed-up alarms researchers
1 Mar 2021: Sir David Attenborough tells UN ‘It is too late to avoid climate change’
23 Feb 2021: Cost of flood damage to U.S. homes will increase by 61% in 30 years
19 Feb 2021: Human destruction of nature is 'senseless and suicidal', warns UN chief
1 Feb 2021: Bolsonaro’s Brazil is becoming a climate pariah
27 Jan 2021: Climate change less likely to be seen as an emergency in poor nations
25 Jan 2021: Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds
15 Jan 2021: Countries adapting too slowly to climate breakdown, UN warns
14 Jan 2021: Rising heat forces big growth in electricity demand
14 Jan 2021: Rising heat forces big growth in electricity demand
11 Jan 2021: Dangerously hotter cities await 2100’s residents
11 Jan 2021: Climate chaos batters global insurance industry
11 Jan 2021: 2020 was hottest year ever in Europe
14 Dec 2020: World still warms in 2020 as greenhouse gases fall
7 Dec 2020: Drylands hit harder by poverty than richer regions
3 Dec 2020: Humanity is waging war on nature, says UN secretary general
3 Dec 2020: Feeling the heat? Scientists warn of climate shocks to global health
26 Nov 2020: New Zealand's Ardern set to declare climate emergency
9 Nov 2020: Scientists’ oath pledges full climate crisis facts
9 Nov 2020: World is running out of time on climate, experts warn
29 Oct 2020: 2020 likely to be one of warmest years on record despite La Niña
29 Oct 2020: Africa’s resistance grows as climate crisis worsens
26 Oct 2020: Climate change poses growing threats to vulnerable Africa, UN says
23 Oct 2020: Coronavirus poses threat to climate-change campaigns – David Attenborough
22 Oct 2020: Alarm as Arctic sea ice not yet freezing at latest date on record
12 Oct 2020: Climate activist Greta Thunberg shows support for Biden in rare political tweet
12 Oct 2020: 'Uninhabitable hell': Climate change and disease threaten millions, UN warns
12 Oct 2020: Celebrities lead global call to act on climate crisis
8 Oct 2020: Not personal enough: Why climate change is not yet a top priority
28 Sep 2020: Ocean heat waves are directly linked to climate change
22 Sep 2020: Demand climate regulation, Harvard economist urges big businesses
21 Sep 2020: Spinning clock in New York counts down time until climate devastation
17 Sep 2020: BlackRock votes against 49 companies for lack of climate crisis progress
17 Sep 2020: Abnormal heat spreads floods and wildfires globally
15 Sep 2020: Climate crisis takes heavy toll on mental health, psychotherapists' association says
11 Sep 2020: Wild weather this year shows growing impact of climate change, scientists say
11 Sep 2020: Pandemic’s impacts are damaging climate research
25 Jun 2020: Antarctic melting could bring a much hotter future
18 Jun 2020: World has six months to avert climate crisis, says IEA chief
15 Jun 2020: Covid-19 pandemic is 'fire drill' for effects of climate crisis, says UN official
21 May 2020: Climate change is turning parts of Antarctica green, say scientists
21 May 2020: Future shock: COVID-19 failures show need to prep for climate threats
18 May 2020: Climate activists line London's Trafalgar Square with kids' shoes
7 May 2020: One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study
28 Apr 2020: Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began
28 Apr 2020: Climate crisis will make insurance unaffordable for people who need it most
23 Apr 2020: Flooding will affect double the number of people worldwide by 2030
17 Apr 2020: Greenland ice sheet shrinks by record amount - climate study
30 Mar 2020: Coronavirus: The immediate effect on climate change
19 Mar 2020: India finally takes climate crisis seriously
17 Mar 2020: Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?
13 Mar 2020: Climate emergency: global action is ‘way off track’ says UN head
20 Feb 2020: Global warming causing 'irreversible' mass melting in Antarctica - scientist
14 Feb 2020: Pupils draft their own climate bill as anxiety grows over lack of guidance for schools
11 Feb 2020: The Guardian view on climate anxiety: we live in frightening times
10 Feb 2020: ‘Overwhelming and terrifying’: the rise of climate anxiety
19 Dec 2019: Climate activists found guilty over London train protest by 'regretful' jury
7 Nov 2019: Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality
7 Nov 2019: Italy to put sustainability and climate at heart of learning in schools
7 Nov 2019: Sea levels set to keep rising for centuries even if emissions targets met
7 Nov 2019: Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
4 Nov 2019: Red alert for blue planet and small island states
1 Aug 2019: Our planet is in crisis. But until we call it a crisis, no one will listen
1 Aug 2019: Siberian wildfires prompt Russia to declare a state of emergency
