The Buzz | World likely won’t avoid dangerous warming mark
A team of top scientists is telling world leaders to stop congratulating themselves on the Paris agreement to fight climate change because if more isn’t done, global temperatures will likely hit dangerous warming levels in about 35 years.
Six scientists who were leaders in past international climate conferences joined with the Universal Ecological Fund in Argentina to release a brief report yesterday, saying that if even more cuts in heat-trapping gases aren’t agreed upon soon, the world will warm by another 1 degree Celsius by around 2050.
That 1.8 degree mark is key because in 2009 world leaders agreed that they wanted to avoid warming of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Temperatures have already risen about 1 degree Celsius, so that 2 degree goal is really about preventing a rise of another degree going forward.
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