Study Suggests Earth Surpassed 1.5°C Warming Threshold in 2020, Earlier Than Projected
A study suggests Earth may have surpassed the critical 1.5°C warming threshold as early as 2020, earlier than previously estimated. This challenges the timeline established by the Paris Climate Agreement and has sparked debate among scientists about the accuracy of global climate data and whether we've already crossed a dangerous climate tipping point.
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Whatever your stance is on climate change (it's real!), it's impossible to have missed the near-ubiquitous call to action to 'keep temperatures from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.'
This ambitious target first surfaced following the Paris Climate Agreement, and describes a sort of climate threshold—if we pass a long-term average increase in temperature of 1.5 degrees Celsius, and hold at those levels for several years, we're going to do some serious dam
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