A new World Meteorological Organization report gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. That’s the international safety limit set in 2015.
\n\nResidents transport drinking water from Humaita to the Paraizinho community, along the dry Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)
\n\nLarge icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, on Aug. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
\n\nA man takes shelter in the shade of a palm tree to protect himself from the sun in a beach in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.
\n\nThe World Meteorological Organization also forecasts an overheating Arctic that warms nearly 3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.66 degrees Celsius) between now and 2030 and a dangerous drought with potential wildfires for the Amazon, a crucial part of Earth’s natural defenses to lessen human-caused…
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