TODAY’S RECORD HEAT TO BE ORDINARY IN GENERATION’S TIME: UN

Tue 21 March 2023:

Even if planet-warming emissions rapidly decline, the record-breaking temperatures of the past eight years will rank among the coolest in the next three to four decades as global temperatures rise, according to a UN report released on Monday.

“The warmest years we have experienced to date will be among the coolest within a generation,” Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London and lead author of the UN’s climate advisory panel said.

The UN also warned that severe climate impacts are occurring faster than previously anticipated at lower levels of global warming and that the world will experience its first full year at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the early 2030s.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that there is a 50/50 chance that “by 2030, global surface temperature in any single year could exceed 1.5C” in a report summarizing its key findings from the previous six years.