This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Get the Full StoryScientists believe a new era of warming has already begun.

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050, as set out in the Paris Agreement, is probably out of reach. We ve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last year s global average temperature being 1.6 C higher than that of the preindustrial era. And while a single year at this level isn t enough to confirm without a doubt that the Paris goal is a goner, several recent scientific papers have come to the same unsettling conclusion that a new era of warming has already begun.

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