Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface air temperature, which suggests we are just three years away from breaching the 1.5°C climate goal ...

Re-draw the baseline to a warmer or cooler starting ... there has been since the true pre-industrial period," Dr Hawkins told BBC News. But the Reading scientist cautions that the uncertainties ...

The 2015 Paris agreement aims to limit the rise in mean global temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels, ideally to 1.5C. But how far along that path are we already? Try drawing ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Nature, researchers established a new pre-industrial temperature baseline, revealing ...

Other scientists say the study contains too many uncertainties and limitations to draw such firm conclusions ... more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Researchers say the ...

The UN Paris Agreement on climate change aims to ensure increases in global temperature are less than 2C above pre-industrial levels, with an aspirational limit of 1.5C. However, the starting line of ...

The daily global average temperature rose more than 2C above the pre-industrial norm for this time of year for the first time last week, according to the EU’s climate change service. On Friday ...

Re-draw the baseline to a warmer or cooler starting ... there has been since the true pre-industrial period," Dr Hawkins told BBC News. But the Reading scientist cautions that the uncertainties ...