“Climate policy is not keeping pace with the acceleration of climate change,” says Ann Mettler, vice president for Europe at Breakthrough Energy, a consortium of nonprofits and venture capital funds backed by Bill Gates that invests in green technologies. The problem is clear: Existing weather is visibly outrunning our combined efforts to stem global warming. A separate team at the United Nations compiled an end-of-century estimate of 2.8C. And we’re not yet halfway to Peak Heat.Īccording to the current projections from researchers at Climate Action Tracker, all the existing emissions-cutting policies by governments around the world would result in the global average temperature increasing about 2.7C by 2100. This acceleration of heat is the result of burning enough fossil fuel to raise global average temperatures about 1.2C since the Industrial Revolution. This year is already highly likely to replace 2016 atop the heat ranking. Scientists suspect the last several years have been warmer than any point in more than 125,000 years. (Bloomberg) - First came the hottest June in recorded history.
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