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The surprising January heat record coincides with a new study by a climate science heavyweight, former top NASA scientist James Hansen, and others arguing that global warming is accelerating.

Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy instruments for mitigating global heating ... impacted by climate change. Warming ocean temperatures have led to shorter ...

Global warming is quickly spiralling out of control, the Met Office has warned. According to the forecaster, Earth is 'off-track' to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) - a key goal set out ...

An international group of scientists, led by King's College London,has revealed how continued global warming will lead to more parts of the planet becoming too hot for the human body over the ...

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The threshold was established at the 2015 Paris climate conference. 195 nations signed a landmark agreement to limit global warming to “well below” 2C “above pre-industrial averages” by the end of the ...

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The rapid increase in CO2 is "incompatible" with the international pledge to try to limit global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the Met Office says. This was the ambitious goal ...