World heading for ‘irrevocable overshoot’ of global temperature thresholds, analysis warns
"Under current policies, the planet will heat up by 2.7C on average by the end of the century compared with preindustrial times, the report by Climate Action Tracker (CAT) found. This is up slightly from a prediction of 2.6C in the group’s analysis conducted last year.
This level of warming smashes the 1.5C threshold that was agreed by countries a decade ago but is set to be breached in just a few years. Scientists have warned that beyond this point already harmful storms, droughts, heatwaves, flooding and other impacts will become intolerable for parts of the world and potentially trigger runaway climate change that won’t be contained.
Countries, minus the US, are gathered in the Turkish city of Antalya for UN climate talks that have centred on the looming “overshoot” of the temperature target. This reality should compel governments to act quickly to phase out use of the fossil fuels that are causing the climate crisis, the UN secretarygeneral, António Guterres, said on Tuesday."
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