Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, 50 top scientists warned on Thursday (Jun 8) in a sweeping climate science update. From 2013 to 2022, 'human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.
Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, 50 top scientists warned on Thursday in a sweeping climate science update.
World leaders will be confronted with the new data at the critical COP28 climate summit later this year in Dubai, where a"Global Stocktake" at the UN talks will assess progress toward the 2015 Paris Agreement's temperature goals. That budget has shrunk by half since the UN's climate science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , gathered data for its most recent benchmark report in 2021, according to the Forster and colleagues, many of whom were core IPCC contributors.To have even a coin-toss chance of staying under the 1.
Ironically, one of the big climate success stories of the last decade has inadvertently hastened the pace of global warming, the new data reveal.A gradual drop in the use of coal - significantly more carbon intensive than oil or gas - to produce power has slowed the increase in carbon emissions.
"The pace and scale of climate action is not sufficient to limit the escalation of climate related risks," she said.
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