The lignite-fired power station of Schwarze Pumpe is pictured during sunrise on January 06, 2022 in Neupetershain, Germany. The Schwarze Pumpe power plant is going to be powered off in 2038 as part of the German coal phase-out.Last year alone, human activities — such as burning coal for cheap power — led to our planet warming by 1.3 degrees Celsius , according to a new report.
Over the past decade, from 2014 to 2023, temperatures rose by 1.19 degrees Celsius — an increase from the 1.14 degrees Celsius seen from 2013 to 2022, according to the new report, which was published Tuesday and overseen by over 50 scientists including Forster. A full version of the report can be viewed in the journal Earth System Science Data.
Global warming due to this IMO regulation is equal to tacking on roughly two additional years of greenhouse gas emissions at current rates, which may not fundamentally change where the world is headed in terms of warming by 2050, but"it does make it more difficult to limit warming to 1.5C over the next few decades," Forster and climate scientist Zeke Hausfather at Berkeley Earth