How Bad Will Climate Change Get? Just Look at the U.S.
“As
the world warms, the United States warms more,” reads the latest National
Climate Assessment
Nov 12, 2022
Last month, the United Nations issued a warning that the world is on track
for at least 2.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century. Far more
than the 1.5 degree increase targeted by the 2015 Paris Agreement. What will
that look like? A draft of the National Climate Assessment, released last month, suggests we only have to
look at the United States, right now, for at least some of the answer.
“Over the past 50 years, the U.S. has warmed
68 percent faster than the planet as a whole,” the assessment reads. While the
world has already warmed about 1.1 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial
times, the U.S. has warmed 1.4 degrees.
That means we’re experiencing some of the
impacts of climate change sooner than other parts of the world might. And it’s
going to get even hotter.
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