Climate Changed
Climate On Track to Warm at Least 3 Degrees Without Action
- Researchers say emissions must peak soon to hit target
- Temperature already warmed 1 degree during industrial era
Dried cracked mud is seen at a reservoir in Spain.
Photographer: David Ramos/Getty Images
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The world is on track to warm by almost 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, double the rate scientists have identified as needed to constrain the worst impacts of climate change.
The latest data from Climate Tracker show that even under the current national pledges to slow global warming, the Earth’s temperature will warm by 2.8 degrees by 2100. The projections are yet another piece of bad news for the environmental movement and the thousands of delegates in Madrid this week debating over how the Paris Agreement should look.