A critical climate target could be ‘deader than a doornail’, and scientists are bitterly divided over it

For years, the fight against climate change was symbolized by one number: 1.5. Since countries agreed in 2015 on the ambition to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, this number has become synonymous with averting catastrophic climate change. But what if the battle to prevent global warming from exceeding this limit … Read more

The Earth broke the global heat record in ’23 and is flirting with the warming limit, the European agency says

Earth broke global annual heat records last year, flirting with the agreed-upon warming threshold and showing more signs of a febrile planet, the European Climate Agency said on Tuesday. In one of the first of several teams of scientific agencies to calculate how exceptionally warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year … Read more