Posted on 05/29/2025 5:08:03 AM PDT by Pontiac
The world could see its first year of warming above 2°C by the end of the decade, leading climate scientists have warned for the first time.
Each year, researchers at the Met Office – the UK’s national weather service – use observational climate data and modelling from institutions around the world to predict the global climate for the coming five years.
Their results suggest the average temperature in a single year could exceed 2°C above pre-industrial times by 2029, a result that would mark a significant and sobering milestone in the fight against climate change.
“That was effectively impossible a few years ago,” Adam Scaife at the Met Office told reporters during a briefing. Such an event would be “completely unprecedented”, he added.
The Paris Agreement of 2015 aims to limit global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, with an additional target of keeping warming at or below 1.5°C. Those aims would only be missed if that level of temperature rise is sustained over a couple of decades.
Last year was the first single year to record temperatures above the 1.5°C threshold, driven by rising emissions and a strong El Niño weather pattern. There is an 86 per cent chance that at least one of the next five years will breach the same threshold, according to the Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update, produced for the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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No, us.
Starving the plants are a means to and end.
The world could also burst into a nuclear fire ball.
Oh well.
Total BS brought to you by the man made climate cultist.
I recommend a Jim Jones type convention for all of them.
I am hoping Trump will decide that the UN is not worth what we are pay them.
Why should we pay for this crap science?
Their choice of year for this gaslighting is ironic, because I predict we may be returning to ‘snowball Earth’ that year…
I don't think so.
More BBQ! More outdoors stuff! More alligators!...............oh, wait.....................
Came here to say exactly that.
I guess the monkey’s that could fly out of our asses think alike.
It’s been a cold winter and spring in Maryland.
AGAIN
My choice is: outright lying
And you have to look at a lot of charts until you find a real one...like where it says that the Cat 5 lasted for 6 minutes...
I came upon a stat list at one point...and I lmao.
The Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption in Jan. 2022, resulted in an increase of global temperatures of 0.4 C, as much as the 30 year anomaly in satellite derived temperatures. If one natural event can cause warming equal to that of the 30 year record, what does that say about the supposed warming from rising CO2?
Hunga Tonga has dissipated and global temps should decrease in the next two years. The current +0.8 C anomaly should drop back to +0.4 C. +2.0 C above the 30 year average is not a reasonable projection. But these climate alarmists are not reasonable. They won’t tell you about Hunga Tonga. All it takes is one significant volcanic eruption to disrupt the equilibrium. But the climate has a wonderful way of bringing balance back into the system.
CO2 levels were 10-15 times higher in the past paleoclimate record and Earth did not suffer from a runaway greenhouse effect. If it did, we wouldn’t be here to talk about it.
Wow, that's really bad we had better do something quick!
Better tell the Chinese to stop their Coal Fired Power Plant construction campaign. 10 new coal fired plants per year.
I am sure that they will be more than happy to stop once you explain the dire consequences of their actions.
Could.
It’s 57 here in Upstate NY....In late May, we were already sweating in school...in the 1950s.
.....or not.
I used to subscribe to this magazine but they became woke and I let my subscription lapse ...
but it’s freezing outside
Why was it hotter during dust bowl era?
How many years climate data you have? Earth is 4,500,000,000 years old. It had cycles of ice age and global warming million times already.
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