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Three years ago, I had a baby. I won’t go into the details, but suffice it to say that she is extremely cute, and I enjoy being her mother. A few months after her birth, I was scrolling on my phone, and I came across news of a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It described a future world that will have experienced 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming. In this world, the oceans are acidifying, and most coral reefs have been bleached to death; hundreds of millions of people face severe drought, and even more face deadly heat waves. The kicker? This planet the 1.5-degree-warmer one was the best-case scenario. Scientists were using the report to argue that we should try to shoot for that. The Paris climate accord aims to limit the global-temperature increase to “below 2 degrees Celsius.” At present, both goals seem like a stretch. According to the U.N., all of the world’s current pledges would only cut carbon emissions by one
2020 Was One Of Three Warmest Years On Record: UN Weather Agency All five datasets surveyed by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) concur that 2011-2020 was the warmest decade on record, in a persistent long-term climate change trend.
Updated: January 15, 2021 8:31 pm IST
The warmest six years have all been since 2015, with 2016, 2019 and 2020 being the top three. (File)
United Nations:
The year 2020 was one of the three warmest years on record and rivalled 2016 for the top spot, indicating the pace of the human-induced climate change which is now as powerful as the force of nature, the UN weather agency has said.
All five datasets surveyed by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) concur that 2011-2020 was the warmest decade on record, in a persistent long-term climate change trend.
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