HARD SUN | EXPERTS SAY EARTH WILL HEAT UP DRAMATICALLY IN NEXT FEW YEARS

There’s a 40% chance that the world will get so hot in the next five years that it will temporarily push past the temperature limit that the Paris climate agreement is attempting to prevent, meteorologists said.

The World Meteorological Organization forecast for the next several years also predicts a 90% chance that the world will set yet another record for the hottest year by the end of 2025 and that the Atlantic will brew far more dangerous hurricanes than it used to.

For this year, meteorologists say large parts of land in the Northern Hemisphere will be 1.4 degrees (0.8 degrees Celsius) warmer than recent decades and that severe droughts will befall the U.S. Southwest.

The 2015 Paris Climate Accord set a goal of keeping Warming to a few tenths of a degree warmer from now. The report said there is a 40% chance that at least one of the next five years will be 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial times — the more stringent of two Paris goals. The world is already 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial times.

Last year, the same group of experts forecast a 20% chance of it happening, however, with the stats in, the chances have now dramatically shot up to a 40% probability. With final confirmatory stats due, the percentages are expected to peak at well over 50%, signalling that this event will likely happen - in all probability.

Some well known politicians nearing the end of their own lives, who had been critical of the science up until now, appear to have fallen ominously silent on the issue.