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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 23, 2021, 01:34:05 pm

Title: Two graphs show the path to 1.5 degrees
Post by: rangerrebew on April 23, 2021, 01:34:05 pm

Two graphs show the path to 1.5 degrees
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    Climate Science

— stefan @ 21 April 2021

In the Paris Agreement, just about all of the world’s nations pledged to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels”. On Saturday, the top climate diplomats from the U.S. and China, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua, reiterated in a joint statement that they want to step up their climate mitigation efforts to keep that goal “within reach”.

But is that still possible? Here are two graphs.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2021/04/two-graphs-show-the-path-to-1-5-degrees/