In a troubling indicator of global warming, the global average temperature was recently more than two degrees Celcius higher than pre-industrial levels for the first time in recorded history, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Jackson Proskow explains how it’s a breach of a limit agreed upon in the 2015 Paris Agreement, and how the world hasn’t done enough to cut carbon emissions.
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