Experts Expect to Overcome Climate Change Crisis within 10 Years

A new study using artificial intelligence predicts that the world will pass the internationally agreed threshold for climate change within about a decade.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, reignites the debate over whether global warming can still be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as called for in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. To reduce the most harmful effects of climate change.

Scientists say the world has already warmed by 1.1 or 1.2 degrees since before the industrial era or the mid-19th century.

Two climate scientists used machine learning to calculate that Earth will pass the 1.5-degree (2.7-degree Fahrenheit) mark between 2033 and 2035. Their results are consistent with other, more traditional methods of predicting when the Earth will break 1.5°C, but with slightly greater accuracy.

"There will come a time when we consider the 1.5°C target unrealistic," said Kim Cobb, director of the Environment Institute at Brown University in the US, who was not part of the study.