Extreme temperatures have shattered the grimmest expectations of a warming world and tested climate models.
It was meant to be a celebration. A group that included some of the world’s leading climate scientists gathered earlier this month at a home in the German city of Potsdam for a colleague’s birthday dinner.
“The 1.5-degree limit is deader than a doornail,” Hansen, now a director at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, told reporters in November last year. “In the next several months, we’re going to go well above 1.5C on a 12-month average ... For the rest of this decade, the average is going to be at least 1.5.”
As a result, says Hansen, some of our pollution is masking the heat we have already locked into the system, and as we strip out the pollution the mask is being lifted and warming is accelerating. Days before he noted a temperature recorded in Turkmenistan of 35 degrees, 10 degrees above the previous record. “Latin America is boiling from Mexico to Argentina,” he wrote a day earlier. “Guyana 37.4 at Lethem, hottest March day in Guyana history set twice in few days.”Asked if he believes Hansen is right, Hare pauses carefully. “You know, I think it’s a dangerous thing to challenge Jim Hansen. Right. So one needs to be very, look very carefully at what he’s arguing.
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