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How hot will Earth get by 2100?

Climate researchers are studying a fresh set of scenarios to model the future of the planet.
  1. Jeff Tollefson
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Conceptual illustration showing researchers with different climate models.

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As world leaders gathered to mark the start of 2050, they looked back on the coronavirus pandemic 30 years before as a turning point in the quest to rein in global warming. Nations pulled together to defeat the pandemic, and that launched a new era of cooperation to prevent a climate disaster. Investments in green energy and new technology yielded rapid cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide, putting the world on track to limit global warming to around 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

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Nature 580, 443-445 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01125-x

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