The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials)😜
Here is a new feature for this blog, which I will add daily. This is the latest inciteful Green News Report from my friends Desi Doyen and Brad Friedman at Progressive Voices. Hit ‘More info,’ listen, then hit return to see my daily topics:
Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen
Episode: 11/12/2026 — More info…
Main Topic: World Faces ‘Irrecoverable Overshoot’ on Warming Without Rapid Action, Report Says
Dear Diary. In conjunction with COP 31 there is yet another report stating that we will overshoot our +2.0°C above preindustrial conditions line in the sand unless carbon emissions are greatly curtailed and but soon. These reports perk up my eyes and ears because that fall in the preview of my ‘how fast how bad’ debate category, which I will endeavor to highlight on this blog.
So, without further ado, here are more details in this new report from RTE 100:
World faces ‘irrecoverable overshoot’ on warming – report
World faces ‘irrecoverable overshoot’ on warming without rapid action, report says
Updated / Thursday, 12 Nov 2026
The report warns that progress on deploying alternatives to fossil fuels is not happening fast enough
The world is heading for an “irrecoverable overshoot” on dangerous warming unless governments reject fossil fuels and start rapidly cutting emissions, a report has warned.
The latest update from the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) initiative, released as countries meet for COP31, United Nations climate talks in Turkey, warns that collective climate action has stalled for the fifth consecutive year.
There are positive signs, with clean electricity meeting all additional global demand for power in 2025, China and India deploying renewables at a record pace, electric vehicle roll out reaching new highs, and deforestation in the Amazon falling sharply.
However, the report warns that progress on deploying alternatives to fossil fuels – which cause most of the greenhouse gas emissions driving global warming when they are burned for transport, heating, power and industry – is not happening fast enough.
Increasing demand for energy and new fossil fuel infrastructure being built have led to still rising emissions, the CAT warns.
It finds that, with the policies on tackling climate change and driving clean energy and technologies that governments have in place today, the world is on track for 2.7C of warming by 2100 – up slightly from 2.6C last year and the same as 2021 to 2024.
If governments met 2030 and 2035 targets to cut emissions under the Paris Agreement – a global treaty that aims to curb warming to 1.5C to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change – it would still be 2.6C, the same as last year.
Under an optimistic scenario, in which countries meet all of their pledges and targets to cut emissions to zero overall, the world would see warming of 1.9C by the end of the century.
The Paris target – of 1.5C – is set to be exceeded in the next few years, and experts warn there is a need to act to limit the size and duration of the overshoot, and bring temperatures down to below 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100.
A fall sharp in deforestation in the Amazon is a positive, the report says
Chief Executive of CAT partner organisation Climate Analytics Bill Hare said: “The stark choice for governments is to either continue to support the fossil fuel industry, which would consign humanity to insurmountable economic damages, rising mortality from heat and climate-driven diseases, and disasters that they are unable to adapt to, or pivot to the solutions which are available and cheaper than ever.
“The imminence of breaching 1.5C cannot be an excuse to open the door to defeatism – the focus has to be on accelerating action to limit the magnitude and duration of overshoot.
“Every increment of warming above 1.5C means even more significant consequences across climate, nature and human systems.”
Scientists warn that exceeding 1.5C of global warming will lead to more severe weather extremes such as deadly heatwaves, floods, storms and drought, rising sea levels, and the potential for catastrophic and irreversible collapse of natural systems, such as coral reefs and rainforests.
Analysis published earlier this week by the Global Carbon Budget initiative suggested a slight decline in carbon emissions from fossil fuels this year, of 0.4%, driven by expansion of solar and wind power and the Iran conflict.
Dr Niklas Hohne, of CAT partner organisation NewClimate Institute, said: “With the closure of the Strait of Hormuz exposing our vulnerability to geopolitical shocks, the case for renewables and electrification has never been stronger.
“It does appear that global emissions could be on the verge of a peak and a much faster decline than we had previously thought.”
But Climate Analytics policy analyst Sarah Heck, lead author of the report, warned that governments are “simply not moving fast enough to adopt the policies that would enable us to escape from the emerging overshoot trap”.
“Worse, several are taking their foot off the accelerator and slowing their climate action – or in cases such as the USA, Canada and New Zealand – rolling it back at a staggering level,” she added.
This means long-term warming is expected to cross the 1.5C limit in around 2030, CAT said.
To hold the overshoot of the 1.5C threshold to the minimum still possible, the report calculates that emission reductions have to speed up from around 4% a year to 2030, then 7% a year in the first half of the 2030s and 9% a year over 2035-2050.
That compares with the 7% drop in carbon emissions from fossil fuels seen in 2020 as a result of Covid-19 lockdowns across the world.
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Source: PA
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