Records being broken for greenhouse gas pollution, surface temperatures and ocean heat
‘Red alert’: last year was hottest on record by clear margin, says UN reportTue 19 Mar 2024 14.00 CETThe world has never been closer to breaching the 1.5C global heating limit, even if only temporarily, the United Nations’ weather agency has warned.
The report found temperatures near the surface of the earth were 1.45C higher last year than they were in the late 1800s, when people began to destroy nature at an industrial scale and burn large amounts of coal, oil and gas. Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London who was not involved in the report, said: “If we do not stop burning fossil fuels, the climate will continue to warm, making life more dangerous, more unpredictable, and more expensive for billions of people on earth.”seen at the start of 2024 represent an unexpected acceleration of the climate crisis.
Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at University College London, said the state of the climate is an “accelerating crisis” for humanity. “This is, sadly, only the beginning of much worse impacts to come, given carbon emissions are still rising and there is continued massive new investment in extracting fossil fuels.”
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