By by Roberta Harrington in Los Angeles There is an 80% likelihood that the annual average global temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one of the next five years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). This is a stark warning that we are getting ever closer to the goals set in the Paris Agreement on climate change, which refers to long-term temperature increases over decades, not over one to five years. The global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2024 and 2028 is predicted to be between 1.1°C …