Half a degree stole the climate spotlight in 2018

New data show limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, not 2 degrees, will make a difference

hurricane flooding

FLORENCE'S FURY  Climate change intensified Hurricane Florence’s rains, which caused the Waccamaw River in South Carolina to overflow.

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The grim reality of climate change grabbed center stage in 2018.

This is the year we learned that the 2015 Paris Agreement on global warming won’t be enough to forestall significant impacts of climate change.