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New York: For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU\u2019s climate service.<\/span><\/p>\n World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts.<\/p>\n This first year-long breach doesn\u2019t break that landmark \u201cParis agreement\u201d, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.<\/p>\n Urgent action to cut carbon emissions can still slow warming, scientists say.<\/p>\n \u201cTo go over [1.5C of warming] on an annual average is significant,\u201d says Prof Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s another step in the wrong direction. But we know what we\u2019ve got to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Limiting long-term warming to 1.5C above \u201cpre-industrial\u201d levels \u2013 before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels \u2013 has become a key symbol of international efforts to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n A landmark UN report in 2018 said that the risks from climate change \u2013 such as intense heatwaves, rising sea-levels and loss of wildlife \u2013 were much higher at 2C of warming than at 1.5C.<\/p>\n But temperatures have kept rising at a concerning pace, data from the EU\u2019s Copernicus Climate Change Service from the past year shows, illustrated in the graph below. The period from February 2023 to January 2024 reached 1.52C of warming.<\/p>\n This year-long breach is no major surprise. January was the eighth record warm month in a row.<\/p>\n In fact, one science group, Berkeley Earth, says that the calendar year 2023 was more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Other science bodies, such as Nasa, put the past 12 months slightly below 1.5C of warming.<\/p>\n These small differences are mainly due to the way global temperatures are estimated for the late 1800s, when measurements were more sparse.<\/p>\n But all the major datasets agree on the recent warming trajectory and that the world is in by far its warmest period since modern records began \u2013 and likely for much longer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New York: For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU\u2019s climate service. World leaders promised in 2015 to try to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5C, which is seen as crucial to help avoid the most damaging impacts. This first year-long breach doesn\u2019t break […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20520,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions\/20520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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