Global temperature record could be broken as soon as 2027, with El Niño expected later this year

Global temperature record could be broken as soon as 2027, with El Niño expected later this year

A record-breaking hot year is almost certain by 2030 as the climate crisis intensifies, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization has warned.

With an El Niño event expected later this year, the global temperature record could fall as soon as 2027.

Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are continuing to rise, trapping more heat and driving more extreme weather, including the record-breaking heatwave that has hit the UK and Europe this week.

Global heating is already estimated to be taking one life every minute, with the toll likely to rise unless emissions fall rapidly.

    • TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Well, we’re about 60 to 80,000 years from the next ice age. If we haven’t all died by then we could wait for that?

      Or just about every developed nation on the planet needs to move to sustainable fuels now!

      Nuclear fusion would be an absolute game changer. Clean, infinite energy, but it is too far away for it to make a difference let alone be able to reverse the damage that is being done. For future generations sake, as a leader of a nation, I’d be throwing all my money at it. Like, yesterday.

      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Just a friendly correction: we currently are in an ice age. You’re thinking of the next glaciation. The confusion is understandable because you are using that term exactly how it’s generally used by lay people, but I think the distinction is important, especially as we’re thinking of long term natural history and understanding climate science.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      At least theoretically yes. We can release particles into the atmosphere that has the opposite effect of the greenhouse gasses. That instead of keeping the heat within the atmosphere, would reflect heat back to the universe.

      But since USA seems keen to continue to completely drop the ball on the issue, for such solutions we probably need to look to EU or China.

      My suggestion would be to put particles in geostationary orbit above USA, because they are the main villain that has caused this problem, and has done the least to help solve it. So it might as well be them that get less sunlight.