Posted on 05/29/2025 11:54:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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 predicted the world would pass that threshold between 2030 and 2035.
The accelerated timeline is due to higher-than-expected temperatures over the past few years, diminishing air pollution that cooled the Earth, and greenhouse gas emissions that continue to rise globally despite the growth of renewable energy.
And it means that irreversible tipping points in the climate system — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the wide-scale collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than scientists previously believed.
The WMO report predicted five more years of sky-high temperatures — which, combined with hotter conditions driven by the El Niño weather pattern, mean that the planet is poised to officially warm 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over a sustained period by 2027.
“There is no way, barring geoengineering, to prevent global temperatures from going over 1.5 degrees,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist and the climate research lead at the payments company Stripe. Geoengineering refers to deliberately cooling the planet, for example by injecting aerosols into the atmosphere — a practice that is hotly debated.
Nearly a decade ago, delegates from more than 190 nations agreed in Paris to pursue “efforts to limit the temperature increase” to 1.5 degrees Celsius, after small-island nations protested that higher temperatures would sink their land beneath rising waves.
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Clearly, we need more air pollution.
You ask, you get, California is covered in manmade sprayed pollution today. The trolls call them long contrails.
what would Joe Biden do?
Dumbo did it!
Yawn.
The only way to stop these climate scammers is to hold them accountable. If a prediction fails, they get their professional creditials revoked, grants revoked, fired from their positions and black balled from similar positions in the future.
The “science” of “the experts” is garbage.
YUP!
Earth is past it’s half life cycle nothing lasts forever except space.
Oh hoes! Not another “Climate threshold”.
And as long as gullible, easily frightened little minds buy it.
“Be glad you are not in an ice age “
No kidding. Our house in North Idaho was under a mile of ice. When the glaciers retreated they dammed the Clark Fork River. Over several thousand years, the ice dams broke and reformed. Each time the dam burst, up to up to 2,500 cubic kilometers of water was released. That’s enough to reall ruin your day.
I wish we could get past just one single doomsday prediction. We could then go from trying to prevent climate change to dealing with the consequences of climate change. I think it’s much better to deal with the effects of climate change. All of this trying to fend off climate change by changing our lifestyles is like getting a restraining order whereas dealing with the consequence is like getting a gun.
How does a guy who works at Stripe qualify as a climate expert? Is it because he couldn’t find a climate job anywhere else? How many climate jobs are there? After the government and news media fill all their climate jobs, where else do you put in an application?
I should believe this latest fearmongering? Into the trash with the last 50 years of that nonsense.
The best possible fix is that climate “experts” need to fly all over the world to hold one conference a week in one hundred different countries.
Five star hotels would be good.
High class hookers would not hurt either.
Lol.
Hunting for the “consequences of climate change” is like hunting for the ghost of a dead uncle in the attic.
Crap, I think I need to quit my job and go on cruises for the next 2 years.
GIGO!
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