Global temperature record could be broken as soon as 2027, with El Niño expected later this year
A record-breaking hot year is almost certain by 2030 as the climate crisis intensifies, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization has warned.
With an El Niño event expected later this year, the global temperature record could fall as soon as 2027.
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels are continuing to rise, trapping more heat and driving more extreme weather, including the record-breaking heatwave that has hit the UK and Europe this week.
Global heating is already estimated to be taking one life every minute, with the toll likely to rise unless emissions fall rapidly.
It’s odd to bring percentages into it as the other factors of the equation aren’t growing at the same rate. In fact, they are decreasing.
The absolute number of people continues to increase steadily, consuming more and more and more of the finite resources we have.
There are more humans on this planet today than have ever been on this planet in the past, and the same will be true for as long as our projections can reliably predict, and we have no intention to reduce that number.
I don’t think the word “slow” has any place in describing this growth unless one wishes to deliberately obfuscate it by using an exponential scale.
This just isn’t true btw. Nearly every single deomgrapher in the world predicts net zero population growth by 2050, and all the most well respected predict we’ll be at 1.8 or below fertility rate by 2050.
The population hasn’t been growing steadily since the 1990s.
You obviously didn’t look at the link I provided, and no the declining percentage will eventually make it slow down. Zero percent is obviously zero, and no it’s not strange to bring that in, because it’s math.
I’m sorry I didn’t comment on your unrelated source. I think we agree that the population is continuing to grow until 2100, as the UN projected.