According to experts, climate change will largely continue unchecked. The opportunity to stabilize the climate system with relatively little effort has been missed, said the opening of the 13th Extreme Weather Congress in Hamburg. This means that massive changes on Earth can no longer be avoided. Climate change "will now occur largely unchecked, meaning that massive changes to our planet can no longer be avoided," according to a joint statement on Wednesday at the start of the prestigious scientific event. He participates in it, among others German Meteorological Service (DWD) . "We have to accept that the limit of 1.5 degrees will be exceeded. "The Paris Framework Agreement has really failed at this point," said Jochem Marotzke, director of the Institute Max Planck for meteorology. "It also means that keeping warming below 2 degrees will only be possible with enormous effort." We are currently on track for a 3-degree world by the end of the century. (Source: dpa/AFP)