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A demonstrator shows her hands reading "1.5 to survive" at a protest advocating for the warming goal at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 16, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. There’s a two-out-of-three chance within the next five years that the world will temporarily reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change, a new World Meteorological Organization report forecasts on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Wed,05/17/23-5:00AM , 228 Reads
There's a two-out-of-three chance that the world will temporarily hit a key warming limit within the next five years, the United Nations weather agency said Wednesday.
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This Aug. 16, 2010, image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows a piece of the Petermann Glacier that cracked in Greenland. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, May 8, 2023, found that tides and climate change are rapidly melting ice in the grounding line zone of the Petermann Glacier. That’s the point where glaciers go from being on land to floating on water. (Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Earth Observatory via AP)

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Warming-stoked tides eating huge holes in Greenland glacier
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Mon,05/08/23-2:17PM , 473 Reads
Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a hole taller than the Washington Monument at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple years, accelerating the retreat of a crucial part of the glacier, a new study found.
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The sun rises above the Atlantic Ocean as waves crash near beach goers walking along a jetty, Dec. 7, 2022, in Bal Harbour, Fla. The world's oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

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Earth in hot water? Worries over sudden ocean warming spike
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Thu,04/27/23-12:10PM , 290 Reads
The world's oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming.
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UN's weather agency: 2022 was nasty, deadly, costly and hot
By SETH BORENSTEIN - AP Science Writer
Fri,04/21/23-6:00AM , 438 Reads
Looking back at 2022's weather with months of analysis, the World Meteorological Organization said last year really was as bad as it seemed when people were muddling through it.

And about as bad as it gets — until more warming kicks in.
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