UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge
Source: AP
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 3:14 PM CST, November 20, 2023
Earth is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed-upon international climate threshold, a United Nations report calculated.
To have an even money shot at keeping warming to the 1.5-degree Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) limit adopted by the 2015 Paris climate agreement, countries have to slash their emissions by 42% by the end of the decade, said the U.N. Environment Programmes Emissions Gap report issued Monday. Carbon emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas rose 1.2% last year, the report said.
This year Earth got a taste of whats to come, said the report, which sets the table for international climate talks later this month.
Through the end of September, the daily global average temperature exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above mid-19th century levels on 86 days this year, the report said. But that increased to 127 days because nearly all of the first two weeks of November and all of October reached or exceeded 1.5 degrees, according to the European climate service Copernicus. Thats 40% of the days so far this year.
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2naSalit
(92,929 posts)Warring going on is like stepping a little harder on the pedal.
Cheezoholic
(2,626 posts)with the kids in the front seat and no seat belts.
2naSalit
(92,929 posts)BootinUp
(49,096 posts)Delphinus
(12,148 posts)they have so much shifting of permafrost that entire villages have to be moved.
NickB79
(19,643 posts)LudwigPastorius
(10,885 posts)Global Warming is ahead now, but one of the other two could make a surprise move on the inside rail and jump into the lead.
Magoo48
(5,410 posts)Yahooooooooo, here comes the dystopian wall.