This year will almost certainly be the hottest year on record, beating the high set in 2023, researchers announced on Wednesday.
The assessment, by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union agency that monitors global warming, also forecast that 2024 would be the first calendar year in which global temperatures consistently rose 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. That's the temperature threshold that countries agreed, in the Paris Agreement, that the planet should avoid crossing. Beyond that amount of warming, scientists say, the Earth will face irreversible damage.
Greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are dangerously heating up the planet, imperiling biodiversity, increasing sea level rise and making extreme weather events more common and more destructive...
I feel like every apocalyptic disaster movie that has been produced has has a group of ignored scientists.
ReplyDeleteHow many times do we have to hear "record high" before we realize that there is an issue? It's crazy that something like this can just be ignored.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be explained by the cliche analogy of the frog boiling in gradually-warming water. Lately, though, it's boiling and people are still ignoring it. Or are pretending to.
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