00:01In the next five years, Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set
00:09as safe
00:10and shatter its hottest year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.
00:16The World Meteorological Organization, WMO, and the UK's Meteorological Office say there's a 70% chance
00:25that the average global temperature between 2026 and 2030 will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times.
00:34There's a 91% chance that at least one of the next five years will shoot past the 1.5
00:41degrees Celsius threshold
00:42and an 86% chance that one of those years will smash the record for Earth's hottest year set in
00:492024, the WMO report warns.
00:53Nearly all the shorter-term forecasts call for a strong Ernino, a natural warming of parts of the Central Pacific
01:00that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures to form soon.
01:05The WMO report says it could stretch all the way to 2028.
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