Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn

19 June 2025

Mark Poynting
Climate reporter, BBC News

The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions.

That's the stark warning from more than 60 of the world's leading climate scientists in the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming.

Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above levels of the late 1800s in a landmark agreement in 2015, with the aim of avoiding some of the worst impacts of climate change.

But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests - leaving that international goal in peril.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4l927dj5zo

[-misanthroptimist]

1. In the immortal words of Bender from Futurama:

"Welp. We're boned."

A few yeas ago I figured out we were going to miss the 1.5C target.

We're going to miss the 2C target, too.

The Great God Market demands sacrifices, after all.