Global warming remains in uncharted territory

The trend in average global temperature has been racing upwards for decades, breaching the pre-industrial target for more than a whole year.

There is a widening gap between what the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change says, and what is happening on the ground: monster wildfires, unprecedented heatwaves, and killer landslides, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of N.W.T. Fire

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 16, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—No sirens are blaring, nobody even looks frightened—but they should be. Last week the world moved into uncharted territory. The "aspirational" goal of never allowing the average global temperature to rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than the pre-ind...

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