UN head warns of ‘climate hell’ as May sets temperature record

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UN head warns of ‘climate hell’ as May sets temperature record
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The UN's secretary general warned of 'climate hell' on Wednesday as two new reports show that the planet may warm above the 1.5 C threshold once hoped to be kept at or under.

hell” on Wednesday as two new reports show that the planet may warm above the 1.5 C threshold once hoped to not surpass.

Guterres aimed anger at fossil fuel companies, which he called the “godfathers of climate chaos,” and encouraged media and tech companies to stop taking advertising money from them. The global average temperature from the last 12 months is now the highest on record, sitting at 0.75 C above the 1991-2020 average and 1.63 C above the pre-industrial average, according to Copernicus.

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