UN: 'Climate crunch time is here,' new UN report warns

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https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156071

‘Climate crunch time is here,’ new UN report warns

24 October 2024 Climate and Environment

Annual greenhouse gas emissions are at an all-time high, and urgent action must be taken to prevent catastrophic spikes in temperature and avoid the worst impact of climate change, according to a new report released on Thursday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

In short, countries must start curbing emissions immediately, according to the UN Emissions Gap Report 2024.

“Climate crunch time is here,” said UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen.

“We need global mobilisation on a scale and pace never seen before, starting right now before the next round of climate pledges.”

If not, she warned, the 1.5°C goal to cap rising temperatures set in the Paris Agreement on climate change “will soon be dead, and well below two degrees Celsius will take its place in the intensive care unit”.

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Yeah, yeah, whatever… Hey, kids! Are you ready to go on our Disney Cruise!? Hurry up! We’ll miss our flight!

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1. We won't

Hell is coming

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2. Hell is here

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3. Agreed. I think its too late

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4. Someone at the UN has a dark sense of humor

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5. It was 100 degrees in Austin last week.

I am west of Austin in the hill country and it has been feeling like summer never ended.

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7. NOAA: U.S. Winter Outlook: Warmer and drier South, wetter North

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/us-winter-outlook-warmer-and-drier-south-wetter-north

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6. It was in the 80s yesterday...

In eastern Montana. Will be in the 70s in western part of the state this weekend. Right now it's mid 40s.

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8. Reuters: Climate change: UN report says planet to warm by 3.1 C without greater action

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-set-warm-by-31-c-without-greater-action-un-report-warns-2024-10-24/

Climate change: UN report says planet to warm by 3.1 C without greater action
By Gloria Dickie
October 24, 2024 5:44 PM EDT

Summary

• Current policies could lead to 3.1 C warming by 2100
• Nations to discuss updated emissions strategies at COP29 in Azerbaijan
• 1.5 C target likely out of reach without climate overshoot

TORONTO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday, more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago.

The annual Emissions Gap report, which takes stock of countries' promises to tackle climate change compared with what is needed, finds the world faces as much as 3.1 C (5.6 F) of warming above pre-industrial levels by 2100 if governments do not take greater action on slashing planet-warming emissions.

Governments in 2015 signed up to the Paris Agreement and a cap of 1.5 C (2.7 F) warming to prevent a cascade of dangerous impacts.

"We're teetering on a planetary tight rope," U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a speech on Thursday. "Either leaders bridge the emissions gap, or we plunge headlong into climate disaster".

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