Blue and Green: Met Office data for 2015 so far shows that, for the first time, global mean temperature at the Earth`s surface is set to reach 1 °C above pre-industrial levels*.
This represents an important marker as the world continues to warm due to human influence. Reacting to news Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Guy Shrubsole said: "With the world already experiencing supercharged droughts and storms after less than one degree of man-made global warming, imagine how devastating two or three degrees...