Humans are still pumping enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That puts this decade's climate goals further out of reach.
Hurricane Otis devastated the Mexican city of Acapulco, after rapidly intensifying over abnormally warm ocean water. A new study finds it is unlikely that humans will successfully limit average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the lower target set by the 2015 Paris agreement.Hurricane Otis devastated the Mexican city of Acapulco, after rapidly intensifying over abnormally warm ocean water. A new study finds it is unlikely that humans will successfully limit average global warming to 1.
"We don't want this to be interpreted as 'six years to save the planet'," says Christopher Smith, a climate scientist at the University of Leeds and one of the authors. "If we are able to limit warming to 1.6 degrees or 1.65 degrees or 1.7 degrees , that's a lot better than 2 degrees ," says Smith."We still need to fight for every tenth of a degree."
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