The Urgent Need for Climate Action: Heat Records Shatter Global Norms.

Climate records are being broken at an alarming rate, with soaring temperatures, unusually hot oceans, record high levels of carbon pollution, and record low levels of Antarctic sea ice. Scientists are concerned that this could be a sign of a planet warming much more rapidly than expected. The world is already 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was in preindustrial times, and the next five years are predicted to be the hottest on record.