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PermalinkResearchers have found that the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees
Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now almost certainly out of reach.
The results, published Dec. 10 in Geophysical Research Letters, suggest the
hottest years ahead will very likely shatter existing heat records. There is a
50% chance, the authors reported, that global warming will breach 2 degrees
Celsius even if humanity meets current goals of rapidly reducing greenhouse
gas emissions to net-zero by the 2050s.
"We've been seeing accelerating impacts around the world in recent years, from
heat waves and heavy rainfall and other extremes. This study suggests that,
even in the best case scenario, we are very likely to experience conditions
that are more severe than what we've been dealing with recently,"