Average temperature to rise by 4 degree Celsius
The world is heading for an average temperature rise of nearly 4 degree Celsius, according to analysis of national pledges from around the globe. Such a rise would bring a high risk of major extinctions, threats to food supplies and the near total collapse of the huge Greenland ice sheet. More than 100 heads of state agreed in Copenhagen last December to limit the rise in global temperature to 1.5 – 2 degree Celsius above the long term average before the industrial revolution, which kick started a massive global increase in the greenhouse gases blamed for warming the planet and triggering climate change. 
But six months on, a major international effort to monitor the emissions reductions targets of more than 60 countries, including all the major economies, the Climate Interactive Scoreboard, calculates that the world is on course for a rise of nearly double the stated goal by 2100. Another study by Climate Analysts at the Potsdam Institute in Germany suggests there is “virtually no change” world governments will keep the temperature rise below 2 degree Celsius. In the last assessment of the problem in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) forecasts that a rise of more than 2 degree Celsius would lead to potential increase in food production, but an increasingly high risk of extinction for 20-30 percent species, severe droughts, floods and a unstoppable “widespread to near total” loss of Greenland ice sheet over very long time periods.
however at 4 degree Celsius it predicted global food production was “very likely” to decrease, “major extinctions around the globe”, and near total loss of Greenland’s ice, precipitating 2-7 meters of sea level rise in the long term. The climate interactive Scoreboard, for which researchers check daily for updates in emissions or other targets which would reduce pollution such as reductions in energy intensity or increase in renewable energy, make a medium-range prediction of a 3.9 degree Celsius increase in temperatures, with a range of 2.3-6.2 degree Celsius, based on committed targets and a more encouraging 2.9 degree Celsius average, with a range of 1.7-4.6 degree Celsius based on “potential” commitments suggested but not enacted by many nations.
Climate Analytics and Ecofys, under the banner of Climate Action Tracker, estimate a range of 2.8-4.3 degree Celsius.
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THIS F*C*S!
HOW CAN THERE BE A RISE OF 4 DEGREES OF RISE IN TEMPERATURE ON AN AVERAGE?
IF THIS IS FOR A DECADE OR BELOW A CENTURY
THEN THIS REALLY F**KS
this is too extreme to be true. 4 degrees increase can’t be possible in just 10 months. it would take more than a century to accomplish that. articles like this make the people paranoid
Yes guys this is kinda unbelievable but this is what climate experts had to say. So, all we can do is wait and watch.