A study in the journal Nature Climate Change figures the carbon pollution already put in the air will push global temperatures to about 2.3 degrees Celsius.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/warming-already-baked-will-blow-climate-goals-study-finds-rcna216

Smoke billows from the Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant on Sept. 12, 2020, near Emmet, Kan.Charlie Riedel / AP fileJan. 5, 2021, 6:15 AM PST/UpdatedJan. 5, 2021, 6:17 AM PSTByAssociated Press

The amount of baked-in global warming, from carbon pollution already in the air, is enough to blow past international agreed upon goals to limit climate change, a new study finds.

But it’s not game over because, while that amount of warming may be inevitable, it can be delayed for centuries if the world quickly stops emitting extra greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, the study’s authors say.

For decades, scientists have talked about so-called “committed warming” or the increase in future temperature based on past carbon dioxide…