{"id":4697,"date":"2024-01-24T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/foresteconomics\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T12:14:00","slug":"a-rainbow-in-the-clouds-of-climate-change-we-must-act-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/foresteconomics\/a-rainbow-in-the-clouds-of-climate-change-we-must-act-now\/","title":{"rendered":"A rainbow in the clouds of climate change \u2013 we must act now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another record. Recent news headlines seem to support the adage that records are made to be broken.<\/p>\n<p>Yet while records are usually positive news in sport or the business world, they serve as grim reminders in the context of climate change, where unprecedented highs are best avoided and are also avoidable.<\/p>\n<p>This month, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) confirmed that 2023 was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climate.copernicus.eu\/copernicus-2023-hottest-year-record\">hottest year on record<\/a>\u00a0by a large margin and was probably the warmest in the past 100,000 years. Daily global temperature averages even briefly surpassed pre-industrial levels by more than 2 degrees Celsius, the upper limit set in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/most-requested\/key-aspects-of-the-paris-agreement\">Paris Agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, all-time highs were also reached for atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane, along with global average sea-surface temperatures, while Antarctic sea ice levels set new lows, according to C3S, part of the European Union\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euspa.europa.eu\/european-space\/copernicus\/what-copernicus#:~:text=Copernicus%20is%20the%20European%20Earth%20observation%20programme%2C%20looking,as%20ground%20stations%2C%20and%20airborne%20and%20sea-borne%20sensors.\">Earth observation programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These records are yet another signal that humanity is increasingly living beyond the Earth\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forestsnews.cifor.org\/84291\/humanity-now-lives-beyond-most-environmental-limits-on-earth-study-finds?fnl=en\">environmental limits<\/a>\u00a0and needs to take action to reverse the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2024\/01\/09\/record-hot-year-2023-global-temperatures\/\">warming process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forestsnews.cifor.org\/86096\/theres-a-rainbow-in-the-clouds-of-climate-change-if-we-act-now?fnl=en\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another record. Recent news headlines seem to support the adage that records are made to be broken. Yet while records are usually positive news in sport or the business world, they serve as grim reminders in the context of climate change, where unprecedented highs are best avoided and are also avoidable. This month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A rainbow in the clouds of climate change \u2013 we must act now - Department of Forest and Environment Economics| Sokoine University of Agriculture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yet while records are usually positive news in sport or the business world, they serve as grim reminders in the context of climate change, where unprecedented highs are best avoided and are also avoidable.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/foresteconomics\/a-rainbow-in-the-clouds-of-climate-change-we-must-act-now\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A rainbow in the clouds of climate change \u2013 we must act now - 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