The UN Secretary-General's warning was dramatic: climate change is now "out of control". We should not see the situation as fatal, says German climate researcher Latif. Despite alarming reports of increasingly frequent heat waves, forest fires and storms, climate researcher Mojib Latif does not believe that the fight against global warming is hopeless. "Scientists assume that the 'point of no return' has not yet been reached. It would still be possible to limit global warming to the level specified in the Paris Climate Agreement - well below 2 degrees compared to pre-industrial times, preferably 1.5 degrees," said the professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel. German news agency in Berlin. Latif responded to the warnings of UN Secretary-General António Guterres. He said that climate change is "out of control". The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has calculated that to reach the 1.5 degree target, global emissions of climate-damaging greenhouse gases must fall by 48 percent by 2030 and 80 percent by 2040 compared to 2019. (FOCUS)