The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiraling into a new superheated era will be \u201cpassed for all practical purposes\u201d during 2024, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James Hansen, the former Nasa scientist credited for alerting the world to the dangers of climate change in the 1980s, said that global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels, amplified by the naturally reoccurring El Ni\u00f1o climatic event, will by May push temperatures to as much as 1.7C (3F) above the average experienced before industrialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The heating of the world from greenhouse gas emissions is being reinforced by knock-on impacts, Hansen said, such as the melting of the planet\u2019s ice, which is making the surface darker and therefore absorbing even more sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiraling into a new superheated era will be \u201cpassed for all practical purposes\u201d during 2024, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned. James Hansen, the former Nasa scientist credited for alerting the world to the dangers of climate change in the 1980s, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":100129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6377],"class_list":["post-100128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-global-heating"],"yoast_head":"\n