• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    if we exceed the 1.5°C warming target set by the Paris Agreement.

    Pretty sure previous studies have already confirmed we’re already blowing past 2°C even if we stopped producing CO2 today.

    Not to be too doomer about it but we’re already too late to prevent centuries of damage. What we can do now is try and keep the ecosystem from becoming completely uninhabitable.

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      3 months ago

      Not to be pedantic, but the target is a ten year trailing average. It’s a crime that we’ve likely hit it for a year or two already, and that shows how urgent the problem is but we’ve still got 5 years or so

      Even worse carbon emissions haven’t yet peaked, much less started dropping, and way less quickly than they need to drop