UN warns of unprecedented heat in next 5 years due to global warming and El Niño.
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The United Nations' weather agency has warned that global temperatures are expected to reach record levels within the next five years due to human-caused global warming and El Niño. The World Meteorological Organization has said that there is a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years will be the warmest on record. There is also a 66% likelihood that the annual average global temperature between 2023 and 2027 will be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for at least one year. The 2015 Paris climate agreement set 1.5 degrees Celsius as a global guardrail in atmospheric warming.
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