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World is halfway through its hottest decade<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Chile\u2019s wall-to-wall solar panels will help as 1.5\u00b0C approaches. Image: By Antonio Garcia<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things are warming up: already the world is halfway through its hottest decade on record, if predictions prove correct.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONDON, 13 February, 2019<\/em> \u2013 Here is a climate forecast that climate scientists, meteorologists, politicians, voters and even climate sceptics can check: the next five years will be warm, and will probably help to complete the hottest decade ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will on a global average be at least 1\u00b0C higher than the average temperature of the planet 200 years ago<\/a>, before the accelerating combustion of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is because the planet is already midway through what may well prove to be its warmest 10 years since records began on a planetary scale in 1850. There is even a possibility that within the next five years, the global temperature rise could tip 1.5\u00b0C above the long-term average for human history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the ambitious limit to global warming that the world set itself at an historic meeting in Paris in 2015<\/a>, for the year 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the forecasters can make such predictions with some confidence because tomorrow\u2019s temperature chart is already inscribed in the air we breathe: the pattern of warming over the last century is consistent with the steady rise in greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere<\/a>, and these are still increasing because fossil fuel use is still going up<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPredictions now suggest around a 10% chance of at least one year between 2019 and 2023 temporarily exceeding 1.5\u00b0C\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Adam Scaife, who heads long-range prediction research at the UK Met Office<\/a>, said: \u201c2015 was the first year that global annual average surface temperatures reached 1.0\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels and the following three years have all remained close to this level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World is halfway through its hottest decade Chile\u2019s wall-to-wall solar panels will help as 1.5\u00b0C approaches. Image: By Antonio Garcia on Unsplash Things are warming up: already the world is halfway through its hottest decade on record, if predictions prove correct. LONDON, 13 February, 2019 \u2013 Here is a climate forecast that climate scientists, meteorologists, politicians, voters and even climate sceptics […]<\/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":[369,11565],"class_list":["post-43799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-global-warming","tag-tim-radford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43799","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=43799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43800,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43799\/revisions\/43800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}