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'The change is happening so rapidly that even the time between major climate
reports can be measured in tenths of a degree of warming. Between one landmark
report by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2018 and another
in 2023, humans warmed the world by about 0.1C.
Taking stock of climate change can be difficult in a year of such rapid
transformation as 2023.
"The current level of warming is 1.25C, and it's warming at a quarter of a
degree per decade," says Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at the
University of Oxford in the UK, and a coordinating lead author on the IPCC's
2018 special report on 1.5C warming.
"You don't need a model to know that, if you are that close, we're going to
reach 1.5C in around a decade or so at that rate of warming," says Allen.
These numbers can feel very abstract at times. What's not abstract is the
effects of climate change as it laps at the thresholds of low-lying homes,
burns buildings in climate-fuelled wildfires and thaws the permafrost beneath
the feet of communities in the far north.
Future Planet's team of climate reporters write from across five continents
to describe what they witnessed as the world warmed in 2023.'
Via
Positive.News
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
