Humans may have caused 1.5 deg of warming if time before industrial era is counted, study finds

NEW DELHI: Humans may have already caused 1.5 degrees of global warming when measured from a time before the industrial revolution, a new study has found, suggesting that the planet could be closer to the Paris Agreement’s warming limits than previously thought.

Countries involved in signing the Paris Agreement are expected to pursue efforts to limit increase in global warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Researchers, including those from Lancaster University, UK, analysed data from ice columns, or ‘ice cores’, of Antarctica to analysed how human-caused climate change has impacted the planet in the last two millennia.

Source: PTI News

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