Grim backdrop to vital global emissions talks as unusual analysis shows 1.5C limit on warming is close to being brokenLeading climate scientists contain warned that the Earth is perilously close to breaking through a 1.5C upper limit for global warming,only eight months after the target was set.
The decision to try to limit warming to 1.5C, measured in relation to pre-industrial temperatures, or was the headline outcome of the Paris climate negotiations last December. The talks were hailed as a major success by scientists and campaigners,who claimed that, by setting the target, and desertification,heatwaves, widespread flooding and other global warming impacts could be avoided. Related: Environmental records shattered as climate change 'plays out before us' Related: Climate models are accurately predicting ocean and global warming | John Abraham Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com