1.5 Degree Alert: What's Next In Our Warming World | Episode 34

The world has officially surpassed a feared warming target across an entire year for the first time on record. The threshold of a 1.5 degree Celsius warming is a crucial long-term measure because additional tipping points become more likely beyond this point.

"Often climate change will feel like its accelerating because the climate is moving past the range of our experience... so much of what we have been doing so far is incremental and what we need to do is transformational," says  Simon Donner, Professor and Climate Scientist at the University of British Columbia.

2023 was scarred with a list of catastrophic events, including unprecedented heatwaves, historic wildfires and floods, but does it only get worse from here? You may be surprised to learn the answer. We will step back and discover what surpassing this warming benchmark means and what is likely to come in the near future. Plus we explore how sea sponges and a never before deployed satellite could help - that's all on this edition of the Big Blue Marble Podcast.