Humanity could be just 3 years away from crossing a dire climate threshold, report warns

Image caption: This image of Petermann Glacier and the new iceberg was acquired from NASA Terra spacecraft on Aug. 12, 2010. On Aug. 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice broke off the Petermann Glacier along the northwestern coast of Greenland. NASA ID: PIA13319. Image credit: NASA / GSFC / METI / ERSDAC / JAROS, and U.S. / Japan ASTER Science Team. Article by Ben Turner. Live Science – June 20, 2025.

Record greenhouse gas emissions could exhaust Earth’s “carbon budget” in as little as three years, dooming the planet to breach the symbolic threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warming. Global warming of 2 C (3.6 F) is considered an important threshold — warming beyond this greatly increases the likelihood of devastating and irreversible climate breakdown that include extreme heatwaves, droughts and the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. […]

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