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The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts

Our planet is getting warmer and while we often discuss this in terms of what will happen, we’ve now reached the point where the effects of climate change are happening in the present. And in Asia, where literally over half of humanity lives, things are already starting to heat up. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details. 

There's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.

It likely would only be a fleeting and less worrisome flirtation with the internationally agreed upon temperature threshold. Scientists expect a temporary burst of heat from El Nino � a naturally occurring weather phenomenon � to supercharge human-caused warming from the burning of coal, oil and gas to new heights. Temperatures are expected to then slip back down a bit.

Climate Coming Heat

A demonstrator shows her hands reading "1.5 to survive" at a Nov. 16 protest advocating for the warming goal at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Climate Coming Heat

Extinction Rebellion activists and sympathizers shout slogans against climate change Jan. 28 while blocking a busy road in The Hague, Netherlands.





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