global warming

Global 2020 temperatures 1.25°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period. Warmest year ever in Europe

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New data from Copernicus, the EU Climate Monitoring Centre, shows that 2020 was the warmest year ever in Europe, 0.4°C above the previous record form 2019 and 1.6°C above the 1981-2001 reference period. Globally, 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year ever on record. Global temperatures was 0.6 °C above the 1981-2001 reference period … Read more

The +1.5ºC World – IPCC Special Report 2018

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The context, apart from a rapidly warming planet, is that the meetings in December 2018 in Katowice in Poland aim to take the whats from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, and turn them into hows, specifically for financing – how much should more developed nations contribute vs developing nations?   “Limiting global warming to 1.5ºC would require rapid, … Read more