Five-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record

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UNITED NATIONS: A damning new UN report published Sunday (Sep 22) said the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster ...

People take part in the Global Climate Strike of the movement Fridays for Future, in Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

More importantly, there is also no sign yet of reaching what is known as"peak emissions," the point at which levels will start to fall, though these are not growing at the same rate as the global economy. But even if all countries meet the goals they set themselves, the world will warm by 2.9 degrees Celsius to 3.4 degrees Celsius, the report found.

"Our global carbon credit is maxed out," he added."If emissions don't start falling there will be hell to pay." At that time, global mean surface temperatures were two-to-three degrees Celsius warmer, ice sheets at both poles had melted, and seas were 10m to 20m higher.

 

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