Gloomy Outlook: Earth Will Soon Exceed Key Global Warming Limit, According to the UN
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the UN has acknowledged that the Earth has lost its chance to avoid some of the worst impacts of global warming. Now, the world must figure out how to bring temperatures down from the danger zone and back to safety, officials say. The Earth is set to soon surpass the safe temperature threshold agreed upon in the 2015 Paris climate pact due to warming caused by the burning of coal, oil, and gas, according to a grim report, the first of its kind, published Wednesday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Instead of giving up, scientists and UN officials recommend trying to limit excessive warming and then work to bring temperatures back down to the agreed threshold. However, this will still mean decades of increased climate-related disasters, rising sea levels, extinctions, and melting ice and glaciers. "Humanity is speeding past the limit to avoid a climate catastrophe," stated UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
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