Global World News Global Warming Update Earth Briefly Surpasses Key Climate Threshold For First Time

Earth could cross a key climate threshold in two years. Here’s why it matters

Seven years ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that the world wouldn’t warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels until 2040. Then two years ago, the group ... Read More

Legendary NASA scientist warns Earth hit a climate point of no return

Earth’s climate is now warming so quickly that one of NASA’s most influential former scientists says the planet has crossed a line it can no longer simply step back from. His warning, delivered nearly ... Read More

Global temperatures likely to be above 1.5C threshold over next five years – WMO

Global temperatures are likely to be more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels over the next five years, scientists have warned. After 2024’s record temperatures broke – temporarily at least – the ... Read More

Why is climate action stalling, not ramping up as Earth gets hotter?

As the impact of global warming becomes more obvious, you might expect countries to step up climate action and preparation, but we’re seeing the opposite happen ... Read More

How a Global ‘Climate Reset’ Could Change the Fight Against Warming

“Climate change is not the biggest threat to the lives and livelihoods of people in poor countries, and it won’t be in the future,” Gates wrote, infuriating many in the climate movement. University of ... Read More

1.5 degree warming threshold could be breached in about 3 years, scientists warn

The world may be on track to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming in about three years, a group of scientists warned in a new paper. Researchers have called for keeping the planet’s warming to ... Read More

For the first time, climate models show the 1.5°C goal is dead

WHEN THE ECONOMIST warned in 2022 that keeping global warming to just 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was no longer plausible, we took some flak. Critics worried that such thinking sapped the ... Read More

Earth is absorbing too much sunlight: It’s a waking climate giant

Albedo is the reflection of sunlight back into space, mainly from bright surfaces such as clouds, snow, ice and atmospheric particles, providing an essential planetary cooling shield. However, a 2021 ... Read More

Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ... Read More