This Just In From Dept. Of Duh - Limiting Global Temp Rise To 2C Would Still Be Disastrous

[hatrack]

Limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius will not prevent destructive and deadly climate impacts, as once hoped, dozens of experts concluded in a score of scientific studies released Monday. A world that heats up by 2C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) -- long regarded as the temperature ceiling for a climate-safe planet -- could see mass displacement due to rising seas, a drop in per capita income, regional shortages of food and fresh water, and the loss of animal and plant species at an accelerated speed.

Poor and emerging countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America will get hit hardest, according to the studies in the British Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions A. "We are detecting large changes in climate impacts for a 2C world, and so should take steps to avoid this," said lead editor Dann Mitchell, an assistant professor at the University of Bristol.

EDIT

Researchers led by Felix Pretis, an economist at the University of Oxford, predict that two degrees of global warming will see GDP per person drop, on average, 13 percent by 2100, once costly climate change impacts are factored in. A 2C world will also "show significant negative impact on the rates of economic growth," Pretis told AFP. Under a 1.5C scenario, he added, growth projections "are near indistinguishable from current conditions."

Under a 2C scenario, oceans rise about half a metre over the course of the 21th century, but well over a metre by 2300, another study found. "When the planet warms, it takes the ocean hundreds, if not thousands, of years to fully respond," lead author Rober Nicholls, a professor of coastal engineering at the University of Southampton, told AFP.

EDIT

https://www.afp.com/en/news/205/two-degrees-no-longer-seen-global-warming-guardrail-doc-13k38n1

[Guilded Lilly]

1. On top of all the human atrocities of greed driven narcissist

Hateful men in power, the arrogant and brainless fouling of the earth is bigger and more catastrophic than all of their destructive agendas.

Mother Nature will have the final word and she will take nothing to the bank.

[StevieM]

2. We are going to need geoengineering. (eom)