BBCNEWS BBC News August 9, 2021 09:33:00
To well below 2 degrees, and preferably to 1.5 degrees celsius, compared to pre—industrial levels. it�*s important to stress that when we talk about 1.5 degrees of warming we�*re talking about the increase in the average temperature across the whole planet. it doesn�*t sound like a lot, but some places have already seen much bigger increases. and as the earth warms up, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent. climate scientists were alarmed by how extreme some of them have been — such as the soaring temperatures in north america�*s heat dome injune and july this year, sma...