{"id":43643,"date":"2019-02-08T07:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43643"},"modified":"2019-02-08T07:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T12:29:54","slug":"uks-met-office-warns-global-temperature-could-soar-beyond-1-5c-threshold-within-five-years%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43643","title":{"rendered":"UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5\u00b0C Threshold Within Five Years\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5\u00b0C Threshold Within Five Years<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Breaching the Paris accord’s designated limit temporarily doesn’t mean all hope is lost for the long-term target, experts explain, “but it does ring an alarm bell.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Met Office reported this week that global average temperature for 2019 to 2023 will likely be between 1.03\u00b0C and 1.57\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels. (Photo: Danicek\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As NASA on Wednesday confirmed<\/a> that the past five years have been the hottest on record, the United Kingdom’s national weather service warned that the next five years could see global average surface temperature temporarily surpass the end-of-the-century target of the Paris climate agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office forecasts that the average for 2019 to 2023 will likely be between 1.03\u00b0C and 1.57\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels, fluctuating each year depending on variations in human activities that produce greenhouse gas emissions as well as natural phenomena such as La Nin\u00e3 and El Ni\u00f1o<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global average reached 1.0\u00b0C for the first time in 2015, “and the following three years have all remained close to this level,” Adam Scaife, head of long-range prediction at the Met Office, noted in a\u00a0statement<\/a>. If that trend continues as expected, the decade from 2014 could be “warmest in more than 150 years of records.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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@metoffice<\/a> Our 5year global average surface temperature forecast predicts that 2019 to 2023 will be near or above 1.0\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels. If observations track the forecast, it would make 2014-2023 the warmest run of years since records began. http:\/\/bit.ly\/2SeCq6N<\/a>
<\/a>Forecast suggests Earth\u2019s warmest period on recordThe forecast for the global average surface temperature for the five-year period to 2023 is predicted to be near or above 1.0 \u00b0C above pre-industrial levels, says the Met Office. \u00a0metoffice.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UK’s Met Office Warns Global Temperature Could Soar Beyond 1.5\u00b0C Threshold Within Five Years Breaching the Paris accord’s designated limit temporarily doesn’t mean all hope is lost for the long-term target, experts explain, “but it does ring an alarm bell.” The Met Office reported this week that global average temperature for 2019 to 2023 will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,7669,369,19779,2080],"class_list":["post-43643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-common-dreams","tag-global-warming","tag-jessica-corbett","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43644,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions\/43644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}