Last year was the earth's second-hottest since records began, and the world should brace itself for more extreme weather events such as the bushfires that ravaged parts of Australia. 9News
Governments agreed at the 2015 Paris Accord to cap fossil fuel emissions enough to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels - after which global warming is expected to be so severe it will all but wipe out the world's coral reefs and most Arctic sea ice.
The main contributor to warming over the last 170 years is human influence on climate from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Hurricane Dorian pounded the northern Bahamas, as the catastrophic Category 5 storm killing 50 people. "We end up with an attribution of these trends to human activity pretty much at the 100 per cent level ... all of the trends are effectively anthropogenic at this point," director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Gavin Schmidt said.
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