Nations Are Getting Serious About Climate Action. Just Not Serious Enough.
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There’s a lot more work to do to keep global temperatures at relatively safe levels, according to a U.N. report issued in advance of global climate talks.

If every single country were to follow through on its stated plans (a big if) then global greenhouse gas emissions would be 2 percent to 9 percent lower at the end of the decade than they are today.

But that would still put Earth on track to heat up roughly 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels by the century’s end, the report found. With every fraction of a degree of warming, the risks from deadly heat waves, wildfires, droughts, storms and species extinctions increase significantly, scientists have said.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We are trying to save our species from extinction by carefully also trying to save the bank accounts of a few hundred people.

    We are going to sacrifice our potential survival by coddling the finances of a wealthy few.

    No wonder we don’t see anything in the universe … alien species are probably monitoring us, avoiding any kind of contact and just shaking their heads in awe at how stupid we all are.

  • Jummit
    1·
    1 year ago

    But that would still put Earth on track to heat up roughly 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels by the century’s end, the report found

    Doesn’t that still mean extinction of nearly all life on earth? What’s with the headline saying “safe levels”?

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      “relativly safe levels” is 2 degrees, as we did have that a 120,000 years ago without too much of a problem and it going back down again. Save would be 1.5 degrees.