How hot will it get in your lifetime?
Test how hot it will get in your lifetime. Enter your year of birth and find out! This test is based on the latest report of the IPCC which is the most exhaustive examination of climate change science to date, predicting dangerous temperature rises.
Temperatures have risen about 0.75°C since the industrial revolution.
Some of that increase was in your lifetime. The last decade was hotter than the decade before you were born.
What happens next depends on future greenhouse gas emissions and how ‘sensitive’ the climate turns out to be. The orange area shows the range of possibilities if emissions keep rising.
On current emissions trends, the planet will be – hotter than the preindustrial era by your retirement – potentially above the agreed ‘safety’ limit of 2°C.
By the end of your life, warming could have reached above preindustrial levels. For comparison, a 4°C rise was enough to transform the planet since the last ice age.
A child born today could see rises of up to in its lifetime – enough to bring catastrophic impacts.
Without emissions cuts, temperatures would keep rising in future centuries, likely accelerated by natural processes.
There is some good news: the new IPCC report suggests that the climate may be slightly less sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought. Unfortunately that does not help much.
Only if emissions are cut radically will there be a good chance of staying below 2°C.
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