'Should U.S. and global policymakers fail to significantly ratchet up the ambition of existing climate policies they will all but guarantee irreversible tipping points will be exceeded,' Rachel Licker of UCSUSA warned.
, is the fact that the past eight years were the hottest ever. As the WMO explained,"2022 is the eighth consecutive year that annual global temperatures have reached at least 1°C above preindustrial levels."
Rachel Licker, a principal climate scientist with the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists,in a statement that"these latest data are in line with long-term global warming trends that will continue to worsen unless heat-trapping emissions are slashed drastically—far more than what the United States and other major emitters are currently doing."
"Should U.S. and global policymakers fail to significantly ratchet up the ambition of existing climate policies they will all but guarantee irreversible tipping points will be exceeded," Licker continued."In addition, more needs to be done to ensure people, economies, and ecosystems on the frontlines of the climate crisis receive adequate investments to shore up their resilience.
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