The Guardian, on Climate, 12 November 2026
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Read the original article on theguardian.com (opens in a new tab)The Guardian reports the Climate Action Tracker projection of 2.7C of warming under current policies, attributes the figures to the report, and sets out both the optimistic scenario and the signs of progress. The headline puts the word "irrevocable" in quotation marks, but the body quotes the analysis as saying "irrecoverable". This is a small slip that does not change the meaning. Nothing else in the piece misleads.
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“irrevocable overshoot”
How we know
“the report by Climate Action Tracker (CAT) found”
The Guardian attributes the 2.7C projection to the named report rather than stating an estimate as bare fact, and it gives the comparison with last year's 2.6C.
“in even the most optimistic scenario – where all pledges, targets and other long-term promises made by countries were fulfilled – the world would still heat up by 1.9C”
The Guardian gives the reader the full range of the report's scenarios and says what each one assumes, so the headline warning is not presented as the only outcome.
“every small increment of temperature rise will be significant”
The Guardian reports that each increment of warming avoided matters, in line with the documented record (R3). This keeps the overshoot warning from reading as a counsel of despair.
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