Paris climate goals 'out of reach' unless rapid changes occur, UN climate report warns

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Source: Euronews

"Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach," scientist Valérie Masson-Delmotte told reporters as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a monumental new report on Monday.

Under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, world leaders committed to trying to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius since the late 19th century because problems mount quickly after that.

The new report, which the United Nations calls a “code red for humanity,” warns that time is running out to save the planet. It gives world leaders the latest up-to-date information about human-caused drivers of climate change since 2013, as well as the latest trends in atmospheric, oceanic and land surface science.

More than 200 scientists reviewed over 14,000 studies for the report.

This report is the culmination of a marathon five-year assessment, updating scientists' best projections for global warming, and discusses feedback loops and other Earth dynamics that have an impact.

Read more: https://www.euronews.com/2021/08/09/watch-live-un-scientists-release-monumental-climate-change-report

[Doc Sportello]

1. "Now it's here"

snip from the article:
"Michael Byrne, a climate researcher at the University of Oxford, said that's what's different about this report is "the effects of global warming are no longer in the distant future or in far-flung corners of the world."
"We knew what was coming and now it's here," Byrne said."

Will this be taken seriously by governments in the developed world, and by the large global corporations and the people who buy their products? Doubt it.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Nothing will stop this except

ceasing all unnecessary activity that burns fuel and staying home to drink cold-brewed coffee all day. Fat chance.

Growth without emissions is a hard nut.

[c-rational]

3. We are sleepwalking to our demise, like frogs in a pot of water set to boil. Go nuclear!

[JudyM]

4. Locking

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