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The UN Is Building a Global Early Warning System for Extreme Weather
In hopes of protecting more people from climate change-fuelled disasters, the United Nations is working on a global system to warn populations who are in the path of a storm or about to be hit by a heatwave or drought. The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) aims to build a system within the next five…
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We Could Breach the 1.5 Degrees Celsius Threshold in the Next 5 Years
Remember that earth-shattering climate report from a couple years ago that said we have to massively cut emissions by 2030 to ensure we don’t exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold of global warming above pre-industrial temperatures? Well, there’s a chance we’ll cross that benchmark a lot sooner than we thought.