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Global Warming Beyond 1.5°C Degrees Celsius

The world has approximately nine years to significantly reduce its level of greenhouse gas emissions, or it will blow through the "carbon budget" allotted to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees ... Read More

Why the Climate Warming Goal of 1.5 Degrees C Isn’t a Lost Cause—Even If We Overshoot It

Global warming is set to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius soon, meaning the world will most likely fail to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of striving to cap the average temperature increase at 1.5 ... Read More

World could soon hit 1.5 degree threshold

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. © Matt York, Associated ... 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

1.5 degrees ‘no longer plausible’ as global emissions hit record

The most aggressive goal of the Paris Agreement is out of reach, according to a new analysis by the Global Carbon Project. The world is on track to set a new record for greenhouse gas emissions just ... Read More

Oops, Scientists May Have Miscalculated Our Global Warming Timeline

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Paris Climate Accords in 2015 set an ambitious (and necessary) goal of keeping global temperatures at ... Read More

Study warns 1.5-degree warming limit can’t prevent dangers of melting glaciers

The 2015 Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was thought to be the threshold for averting severe climate change impacts. But new research says even that level is ... Read More

U.N.: World Likely to Surpass 1.5 Degrees Celsius Climate Goal

A new U.N. environment report warns nations have made very little progress in the fight against climate change, putting the world on track toward dangerous global warming as greenhouse gas emissions ... Read More

How Will Climate Scientists Know When the World Gets to the 1.5 C Mark?

As the world gets closer to the mark 1.5 degrees Celsius in Paris climate agreement, scientists are racing to establish a single way to monitor current warming CLIMATEWIRE | The world can't seem to ... Read More

New reports paint picture of an ‘extremely dangerous’ future with warming expected to blow past key limit

Megacities flooded by surging seas. Mountains bare of the glaciers that once perched on their craggy peaks. Ice sheets crumbling into the ocean. The seafloor carpeted in ghostly skeletons of dead ... Read More