Overshoot: The world is hitting point of no return on climate

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By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360Feb 8, 2026, 9:00 am114 ptsTrending
The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And climate scientists are predicting devastating consequences, just as the world’s governments appear to have lost their…

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