Global temperatures may have already risen by 1.5C since the pre-industrial period, according to an Australian-led team of researchers. And they warn that warming could reach 2C by the end of the decade.
It’s not surprising that we may have passed 1.5c however the confirmation that climate science is on the money is a worry.
Here is an article from an issue of Popular Mechanics decrying the consequences of carbon pollution. So we've known about this for about as long as it's been happening as well.
I asked my sponge in the bath last night and it denied this was anything to do with 'big sponge'. Someone is trying to do a hit job on them and they firmly believe it is a conspiracy between the whales and coral.