The world has just recorded its first ever 12-month stint of temperatures 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. It shows how completely we have changed our climate.
But this news doesn’t mean that we have reached the 1.5 degree Paris Agreement target for warming – yet.
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Contents
00:00 – More news.
00:57 - Wake-up call
01:28 - Paris targets and current warming
02:47 – Apples, oranges, and sponges
04:40 – We need action
#ClimateChange #ParisAgreement
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References and resources
https://climate.copernicus.eu/coperni...
https://climate.copernicus.eu/coperni...
https://climate.copernicus.eu/
https://www.smh.com.au/national/did-a...
McCulloch, et al. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01...
Betts et al. (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
Nogrady (2024) Have we just blown past our climate target?https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...