A long-overdue report by the world’s climate scientists will on Monday reveal that global warming is accelerating faster than thought, with temperat

World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast

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2021-08-07 09:30:04

A long-overdue report by the world’s climate scientists will on Monday reveal that global warming is accelerating faster than thought, with temperatures set to punch through the critical 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold by the early 2030s, a decade earlier than anticipated just three years ago.

The faster trajectory in the planet’s average temperature gains means the timeline for governments and businesses to plan for an uncontrolled surge in catastrophic fires, floods and droughts is narrowing to less than a decade.

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) much-anticipated report on the latest physical science on climate change follows a year-long delay caused by COVID-19 and is now set to paint a stark backdrop ahead of global talks in November.

IPCC authors are expected to warn there is a greater than 50 per cent chance the world’s temperatures will rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next 10 years, according to sources briefed on the report’s contents.