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Sunday, September 06, 2026

Global temperature rise is set to push past 1.5 degrees Celcius, or 34.7 degrees Fahrenheit, over pre-industrial temperatures within the next few years, according to a new United Nations report.

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On the continent, people who were once highly dismissive of a/c now speak of it as a fundamental human rights. Air temperatures there are on a trajectory to match those of the American southeast in just a couple of decades. www.theguardian.com/environment/ ...

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-- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) 9:55 AM · Sep 6, 2026

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... The temperatures will increase risk and impacts worldwide, but it's still possible to bring temperatures down to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, the report from the United Nations Environment Programme said.

The report, Limiting Overshoot: Navigating Exceedance of 1.5C and Pathways Towards Return, gives an "overshoot, peak and decline" path as the best option to reduce the overshoot and return to below the 34.7 degree target.

"This summer's scorching heat, raging wildfires and deadly floods are a warning of what lies ahead," said U.N. Secretary-General Antnio Guterres in a statement. "We must make the overshoot above 1.5 degrees [34.7 F] as small and short as possible. That demands an overshoot of ambition." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-04 12:33 AM | Reply

Well, an obvious hoax. Let's spend billions of taxpayer dollars to cancel wind and solar projects that are half-way done. That's what fiscally responsible Republicans do, right Beverly?

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-09-05 02:12 PM | Reply

Thought global warming was supposed to have killed humanity by now.

#3 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-09-05 03:49 PM | Reply

Thought global warming was supposed to have killed humanity by now.

#3 | Posted by fortfisher at

Why should you care what happens to humans?

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-09-05 04:35 PM | Reply

Florida is supposed to be under water already.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-06 02:59 AM | Reply

Putting climate change denier in charge of the US was stupid, to do it twice was unforgivable. Now all the future can do is troop over to the gravesites of those, people like Trump, who are human caused global warming deniers, long after they die, and urinate away on them, as they try to survive the hell that is coming. We should have been fighting global warming with everything we had including reducing our populations not work like hell to "grow" their numbers.

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-09-07 06:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

At the site of the Big Hole Battlefield, near the Idaho border in western Montana, is a sign describing the life of the Nez Perce and Chief Joseph. They roamed the largest area of any north American tribe/nation for an estimated 10,000 to 13,000 years. In 1877, we herded him and his people off to a reservation. It took us superior whitey's 149 years to bring the planet to the brink of destruction it is at today.

#7 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2026-09-07 11:26 AM | Reply

Our wonderful news media have taken to copying and pasting word for word UN talking points and not even using quotation marks.

Seriously.

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That is fricking embarrassing. It's proof positive WHY trust in our news media is at historic all time low.

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-09-07 01:19 PM | Reply

copying and pasting word for word UN talking points and not even using quotation marks.

The headline source cites the UN report many times and the article is full of quotations. Are you talking about the opinion piece in the Gaurdian? The Gaurdian is british and it's an opinion piece, so not really "ours" or even "news".

#9 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-09-07 01:30 PM | Reply


We should have been fighting global warming with everything we had including reducing our populations not work like hell to "grow" their numbers.

So why are extreme environmentalist against Nuclear power ? Also how do you reduce population when you keep importing people?

#10 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-09-07 01:47 PM | Reply

@#9 ... The headline source cites the UN report many times and the article is full of quotations. ...

Yup.

The main article is from UPI and cites the UN report, complete with a link to the report. It also provides quotes from UN, and other, officials.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-07 02:07 PM | Reply

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