How hot is hot: Advanced models forecast up to 5.6°C global warming

Climate models earlier didn't account for heat trapped by clouds

Oceans are fast losing oxygen, putting marine habitat at greater risk

Decreasing oxygen level increases stress on marine life even as it faces the impact of rising temperatures and ocean acidification

Industrial Revolution kick-started global warming much earlier than we realised

The tropical oceans and the Arctic were the first regions to begin warming, in the 1830s

We are living in a 400 ppm world, maybe permanently

The CO2 levels in earth's atmosphere have permanently crossed the dangerous 400 ppm mark

There is no safe level of global warming: IPCC report

Unless net carbon dioxide emissions are brought down to zero by 2050, warming above 1.5°C is practically inevitable

Extreme weather events of 2013 a result of human influences: WMO

Typhoon Haiyan, heatwave in Australia, frigid polar air in parts of Europe and the US are a few events mentioned in the World Meteorological …