World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say
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Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku
    • silence7@slrpnk.netM
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      1 month ago

      We’re not quite that bad right now; efforts already taken probably dropped it to something more like 3°C of warming by 2100 with further warming thereafter.

      • comradechestnut@slrpnk.net
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        1 month ago

        not quite that bad

        Except several experts have surmised that at 3ºC we will experience civilizational collapse. Stefan Rahmstorf, for example, said recently that “We simply wouldn’t reach three degrees because… we’d be in such deep trouble that basically the economy collapses.”