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A hot, humid day? Sweating like a pig? Make up run down? Sweaty, puffy you?

Well, get used to it. As the world warms due to climate change, they’ll become all too common in just a few decades—and that’s according to modest projections.

The world will almost certainly reach a tipping point and bring about unstoppable, destructive climate change, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Washington.

The scientists believe that there is a 90% chance of the world’s rising by about 2C by the end of this decade, hence placing the overall temperature at 4.9C- way above pre-industrial levels. This “tipping point” as they call it, is when the change becomes unstoppable.

Dr Dargan Frierson, from the University of Washington, said: “Countries argued for the 1.5C target because of the severe impacts on their livelihoods that would result from exceeding that threshold. Indeed, damages from heat extremes, drought, extreme weather and sea level rise will be much more severe if 2C or higher temperature rise is allowed.
“Our results show that an abrupt change of course is needed to achieve these goals.”
Professor Adrian Raftery, who led the University of Washington team, said: “The big

problem with scenarios is that you don’t know how likely they are, and whether they span the full range of possibilities or are just a few examples. Scientifically, this type of storytelling approach was not fully satisfying.

“Our analysis is compatible with previous estimates, but it finds that the most optimistic projections are unlikely to happen. We’re closer to the margin than we think.

“Overall, the goals expressed in the Paris Agreement are ambitious but realistic. The bad news is they are unlikely to be enough to achieve the target of keeping warming at or below 1.5 degrees.”

The findings appearing in the journal Nature Climate Change is the result of a new approach analysing 50 years of data on world population and economic activity, another important factor that they included was the “carbon intensity”, the amount of carbon emitted for each dollar of economic activity.

On approaching this tipping point, the world will fall into disastrous effects like widespread drought, extreme weather and dangerous increases in sea level. Looks like it is as bad as it gets- how a delay in curbing global warming and emissions has finally led us to a place where heat mortality is irreversible.

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