New Delhi, May 28: At a time when global warming led climate change has emerged as a great concern for the mother earth, excessive combustion of fossil fuel is yet deepening the climatic issues.
With the combustion of fossil fuel is on the rise, climatologists assay an abnormal rise in Earth’s Average Temperature limit that’s 1.5 C during 2025-29.
According to a new report published by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on Wednesday, there is a 70 per cent chance that the average global temperature for the 2025-2029 period will exceed pre-industrial levels by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
It also said that there is an 80 per cent chance that at least one of the next five years will exceed 2024 as the warmest on record.
The WMO report said that the average global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2025 and 2029 is expected to be between 1.2 and 1.9 degrees Celsius higher than it was between 1850 and 1900.
There is an 86 per cent chance that for at least one year during this period, the temperature will be more than 1.5 degrees higher than the 1850-1900 average.
The report also said there is a 70 per cent chance that the average temperature for the entire five-year period will be more than 1.5 degrees higher than the 1850-1900 average.
Worth mentioning, the year 2024 was the first calendar year with a global mean temperature of more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the 1850-1900 baseline, the period before human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, began significantly impacting the climate.
The 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold is a target that countries agreed to at the Paris climate conference in 2015 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
A permanent breach of the 1.5-degree Celsius limit specified in the Paris Agreement refers to long-term warming over a 20 or 30-year period.
With the concerning alarm for the globe, countries are required to submit their next round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) or national climate plans for the 2031-2035 period to the UN climate change office this year.
The collective aim of these climate plans is to limit or contain global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
