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Have we misinterpreted pre-industrial temperature baseline?

Earth may have warmed on average by at least 1.7°C since pre-industrial times. This suggests we have passed the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. Says a new study based on gauging ocean temperatures over past centuries, called “sclerosponge thermometry”.

#climateCrisis #Sponges #temperatureProxy #OceanHeat

https://theconversation.com/a-deeply-troubling-discovery-earth-may-have-already-passed-the-crucial-1-5-c-warming-limit-222601

Have we misinterpreted pre-industrial temperature baseline?

Earth may have warmed on average by at least 1.7°C since pre-industrial times. This suggests we have passed the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement. Says a new study based on gauging ocean temperatures over past centuries, called “sclerosponge thermometry”.

#climateCrisis #Sponges #temperatureProxy #OceanHeat

https://theconversation.com/a-deeply-troubling-discovery-earth-may-have-already-passed-the-crucial-1-5-c-warming-limit-222601