In September we went past 1.5 degrees. In November, we tipped over 2 degrees for the first time. What's going on?
- Written by: Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
In September, the world passed 1.5°C of warming. Two months later, we hit 2°C of warming. It’s fair to wonder what is going on.
What we’re seeing is not runaway climate change. These are daily spikes, not the long-term pattern we would need to say the world is now 2 degrees hotter than it was in the pre-industrial period.
These...