When I was a freshman in college (2004), the concern was that we were careening towards a cliff and that the “must stop” number was to keep the global average temperature increase below 1 degree Celsius, and that if we were able to reverse course we’d still feel those effects well into the following 2-3 decades.
We went over the cliff, officially, in 2020. Everything now is about mitigating the damage we are already going to cause. It’s going to get worse and the bad news is going to continue being met with openings like “I’m not a climate denier, but…”
When I was a freshman in college (2004), the concern was that we were careening towards a cliff and that the “must stop” number was to keep the global average temperature increase below 1 degree Celsius, and that if we were able to reverse course we’d still feel those effects well into the following 2-3 decades.
We went over the cliff, officially, in 2020. Everything now is about mitigating the damage we are already going to cause. It’s going to get worse and the bad news is going to continue being met with openings like “I’m not a climate denier, but…”