A study published yesterday, Thursday, stated that climate change is accelerating and that the Earth's temperature will exceed the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius this decade, which scientists say "should sound the alarm in this year's COP28 climate discussions." James Hansen from the Earth Institute at Columbia University, a co-author of the research, noted, "The shortcoming in our scientific community is the failure to clarify the situation to political leaders." Hansen was one of the first scientists to warn the world in the 1980s about the greenhouse effect resulting from global warming.
Countries worldwide committed to the Paris Agreement, aimed at combating climate change in 2015, to keep the global temperature rise within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. However, new research conducted by a team of scientists, some from NASA and Columbia University, adds to the evidence that this goal is already out of reach. Most projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), affiliated with the United Nations, expect that the world will exceed the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold during the 2030s. The planet's temperature has already increased by approximately 1.2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
