UN warns world heading for 1.8°C warming as Trump administration dismantles climate rules
Current policies will far exceed the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C target, with climate scientist Michael Mann warning dangerous change is already underway.
What to know
- The UN warns current climate policies will lead to at least 1.8°C of warming, well above the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target.
- Dangerous climate impacts—heat domes, wildfires, floods—are already occurring despite the world not yet reaching 1.5°C of warming.
- The Trump administration is dismantling emissions regulations from power plants, accelerating the failure to meet climate targets.
- Climate scientist Michael Mann argues the world will likely miss the 1.5°C target due in part to two years of U.S. policy inaction.
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Trump administration moves to dismantle power plant emissions regulations
Despite growing climate evidence, the Trump administration is moving to dismantle regulations that constrain warming emissions from power plants and other sources.
“It might sound like a small amount of warming, right? But when the human body warms up that much, it's called a pretty serious fever.”
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"What Happens When Earth Passes 1.5 Degrees of Warming" via @stevecurwood.bsky.social & @livingonearthradio.bsky.social by way of @insideclimatenews.org:
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"It might sound like a small amount of warming, right? But when the human body warms up that much, it’s called a pretty serious fever. Even though you’re only talking about a couple degrees on the thermometer, you know what the consequences of that fever are... "That thermometer scale is telling us that Earth is running a fever, and we’re seeing…
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“What Happens When Earth Passes 1.5 Degrees of Warming” via Steve Curwood & @ livingonearth by way of @ insideclimatenews : https:// insideclimatenews.org/news/190 92026/what-happens-when-earth-passes-1-5-degrees-of-warming/
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Michael Mann: dangerous climate change is already happening, inaction accelerating it — Climate scientist Michael Mann assessed current climate conditions in an interview, comparing global warming to a human fever and warning that despite not yet reaching 1.5°C, dangerous climate impacts are already visible. He attributed the likely failure to meet the 1.5°C target partly to two years of U.S. inaction under the current administration.
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UN warns current policies will produce 1.8°C warming, missing Paris target — As the United Nations prepares for a late-September climate summit, it warns that current climate policies will lead to at least 1.8 degrees Celsius of global warming, well beyond the 1.5 degrees set by the Paris Agreement. The year has seen one of the hottest summers globally, with deadly heat waves in Europe, catastrophic floods in Nepal, and July as the single-hottest month ever recorded in the U.S.