line with what is expected with climate change, ” said senior scientist Leon Hermanson, who

Since signing the Paris climate agreement in 2015, nations around the world have focused on one climate goal: limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius( 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels this century.... The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded last month that the world could blow past the key target within eight years.... Extreme heat events are more likely to take place and break previous records by large margins, as seen in the Pacific Northwest in