This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold
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This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold

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This is what the world looks like if we pass the crucial 1.5-degree climate threshold Enlarge this image toggle caption Branden Eastwood/AFP via Getty Images Branden Eastwood/AFP via Getty Images There's one number heard more than any other from the podiums at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland: 1.5 degrees Celsius. By limiting the planet's warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2100, the hope is to stave off severe climate disruptions that could exacerbate hunger, conflict and drought worldwide. Enlarge this image toggle caption Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images Oceans are warming along with the atmosphere, since they absorb much of the excess heat from climate change. Limiting temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius could halve the amount of sea level rise that happens by the end of the century, compared with what's expected.

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