Artificial intelligence predicts climate change coming faster than we recently thought, new study says

The world faces a significant risk of passing a crucial global warming threshold earlier than scientists had suggested, possibly as soon as 2050, a paper published Monday found. The threshold is the point at which Earth's overall temperature has increased by 2.0 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. If greenhouse gas emissions remain at high levels, there's a 50% probability the world could reach that catastrophic milestone before 2050, said co-author Noah Diffenbaugh, a climate scientist at Stanford University. The chance it could reach 2.0 degrees before 2058 is 84 in 100. Earlier estimates had put it closer to the end of the century.