Earth's 1.5C Warming Limit Undermined

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

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Scientists warn world has three years left to limit warming to 1.5C at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions.

The Paris agreement was agreed in 2015 to limit global temperature rises to 1C above levels of the late 1800s .

But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests.

Last year was the first on record when global average air temperatures were more than 1.36C above pre-industrial levels.

In reality, every extra bit of warming increases the severity of many weather extremes, ice melt and sea-level rise. "Reductions in emissions over the next decade can critically change the rate of warming," said Prof Rogelj . "Every fraction of warming that we can avoid will result in less harm and less suffering of particularly poor and vulnerable populations and less challenges for our societies to live the lives that we desire," he added..

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