The Met Office has just released a report which says that this decade, the 2010s, has been the warmest decade since records began - our planet has seen around a 1c increase in temperature this decade. The Met Office is predicting, with 90% accuracy, that the global temperature will see an increase to 1.1c. They are also predicting with 90% certainty that in the next five years, between 2019 and 2023, that there will be between a 1.03c increase to a 1.57c increase, in the average global temperature.
If this turns out to be true, it could quickly make the Paris Agreement look like a piece of history. This is because the Paris Agreement aims to avoid global temperatures rising above 1.5c. In the words of the Paris Agreement, the Paris temperature goal is to ensure that we remain ''well below 2c above preindustrial levels and perusing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5c above pre-industrial levels.'' With the Met Office's new report, reaching the Paris Agreement's target of stalling the global temperature at 1c looks almost impossible now. It would take a miracle, or a drastic change in how our lives are lived globally to reach the agreements target.
But, it is not impossible: there is some chance that we can prevent temperatures increasing to 1.5c above preindustrial levels. To prevent our planet increasing to 1.5c, we would need to do two main things: cut down on our meat consumption, and by cutting down on our fossil fuel usage. It would mean that we would have to make significant changes on how we live our lives.
To read the Met Office report, you can find it - here.