Climate Facts: Extreme temperatures to occur five times more often at 2°C warming, says IPCC

The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can make it difficult to digest. TheCable’s climate quick facts will help to demystify these climate concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations.

Here are some to keep at the tip of your fingers:

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says at 2°C of global warming, extreme temperatures are expected to happen five times more often and to be 2.6°C hotter. 
• The organisation said extreme precipitation events become seven percent more intense with every additional degree of global warming.
• The IPCC said nature is a natural carbon sink. During the last decades, around half of carbon dioxide emissions have been absorbed and stored by plants, soils and the oceans, the organisation said.
• The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said March 2024 was the hottest on record.
• March 2024 was also the 10th consecutive month of record-breaking temperatures globally.