When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest report on the effects of climate change in December, it noted that the average global temperature had risen 3.6 degrees over the past century, putting it on track to hit an average temperature that is "unprecedented in human history," per the New York Times.
The Times also noted that the average amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in 2015 was the highest it's been since record-keeping began in 1880.
But the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) isn't ready to give up on keeping global temperatures from rising 3.6 degrees over pre-industrial levels, as they're required to be by the Paris climate accord, per the Guardian.
Instead, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling for the world to keep the temperature increase to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) and pursue efforts to "pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius" over pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's chief scientific adviser tells the Times that even if the temperature increase is limited to 3.6 degrees, the effects of climate change will be felt around the world
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