--- description: Solecki is a professor of geography at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was an author of the 1.5°C Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in 2018. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # William Solecki ## William Solecki Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Solecki is a professor of geography at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was an author of the 1.5°C Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in 2018. ## William Solecki Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Jan 22, 2024 ### [Welcome to Earth 2.0°C](https://time.com/6565044/earth-2-point-0-climate-change/) The reality is that we're going to pass the 1.5°C climate change threshold. That doesn't mean we nee... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/william-solecki/","name":"William Solecki"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/william-solecki/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/william-solecki/"},"name":"William Solecki","jobTitle":null,"description":"Solecki is a professor of geography at Hunter College, City University of New York. He was an author of the 1.5°C Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in 2018.","url":"https://time.com/author/william-solecki/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```