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The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found.

On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels.

Staying below that marker long-term is widely considered crucial to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change.

But 2023 is "on track" to be the hottest year on record, and 2024 could be hotter.

"It is a sign that we're reaching levels we haven't been before," says Dr Melissa Lazenby, from the University of Sussex.

This latest finding comes after record September temperatures and a summer of extreme weather events across much of the world.

 
 

When political leaders gathered in Paris in December 2015, they signed an agreement to keep the long-term rise in global temperatures this century "well below" 2C and to make every effort to keep it under 1.5C.

The agreed limits refer to the difference between global average temperatures now and what they were in the pre-industrial period, between 1850 and 1900 - before the widespread use of fossil fuels.

 

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25 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

We are going to fry like chickens

Will the Earth ever cool down again?

Greenhouse gas concentrations and global temperatures will not increase indefinitely — today's carbon dioxide buildup and warming trend must eventually top out and then reverse as the atmosphere gradually recovers.

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3 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

And still we get these pathetic climate protestors refusing to fly to China and protest in their streets

You might want to ask yourself why Chinese citizens aren't protesting.

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13 hours ago, Flying Saucage said:

China doesn't need the 'human made climate change', as they have a dictatorship already.

Funny how human caused climate change denialists call the overwhelming majority of climatologists  and those who accept the results of their research alarmists, but call "human made climate change" a dictatorship. 

Hysterical much?

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Yet another silly, irrelevant, we want more of your money to save you from nothing, news-blip.

 

Long live GW, as it's been beautiful here.  Overcast, low temps, and even needing to top up the EV more often, as not enough sun for house & EVs every day.

 

Top up now as it dips below 90% instead of 70s or 80%, as it won't finish.

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5 hours ago, Flying Saucage said:

Basically this petition is a scam. The linked to articles were written when the claim as that 1200 scientists had signed on to the petition.

 

"Rather, they said, the post seems to be the latest iteration of a broader disinformation campaign that for decades has peddled a series of arguments long discredited by the scientific community at large. Furthermore, the experts told me, the vast majority of the declaration’s signatories have no experience in climate science at all, and the group behind the message—the Climate Intelligence Foundation, or CLINTEL—has well-documented ties to oil money and fossil fuel interest groups. 

“Looking at the list of signatories, there are a lot of engineers, medical doctors, and petroleum geologists and almost no actual climate scientists,” said Zeke Hausfather, a longtime research scientist at Berkeley Earth, a non-partisan nonprofit that specializes in analyzing climate data, and the former director of climate and energy programs at the Breakthrough Institute, another independent environmental research firm."

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23082022/experts-debunk-viral-post-claiming-1100-scientists-say-theres-no-climate-emergency/

 

"When looking closer at the list of signatories, there are precisely 1,107, including six people who are dead. Less than 1% of the names listed describe themselves as climatologists or climate scientists...

According to an independent 2019 count of the declaration's signatories, 21% were engineers, many linked to the fossil fuel industry. Others were lobbyists, and some even worked as fishermen or airline pilots."

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/09/16/fact-check-did-1200-climate-experts-sign-declaration-denying-climate-emergency

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