IPCC Report Author: World "Nowhere Near" Holding Back Global Heat Spike Of More Than 1.5C

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The world’s governments are “nowhere near on track” to meet their commitment to avoid global warming of more than 1.5C above the pre-industrial period, according to an author of a key UN report that will outline the dangers of breaching this limit.

A massive, immediate transformation in the way the world’s population generates energy, uses transportation and grows food will be required to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5C and the forthcoming analysis is set to lay bare how remote this possibility is. “It’s extraordinarily challenging to get to the 1.5C target and we are nowhere near on track to doing that,” said Drew Shindell, a Duke University climate scientist and a co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which will be unveiled in South Korea next month. “While it’s technically possible, it’s extremely improbable, absent a real sea change in the way we evaluate risk. We are nowhere near that.”

In the 2015 Paris climate pact, international leaders agreed to curb the global temperature rise to 2C above the era prior to mass industrialization, with an aspiration to limit this to 1.5C. The world has already warmed by around 1C over the past century, fueling sea level rises, heatwaves, storms and the decline of vulnerable ecosystems such as coral reefs.

Shindell would not share exact details of the IPCC report, but he said that the more ambitious 1.5C goal would require a precipitous drop in greenhouse emissions triggered by a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels, particularly coal, mass deployment of solar and wind energy and the eradication of emissions from cars, trucks and airplanes.

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/26/global-warming-climate-change-targets-un-report

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1. Of course we aren't. I'm not surprised. Warned again and again by many competent ...

people/scientists, the bulk of this evidence is being ignored by corporations and the likes of people like rump and his fellow cronies.

One day the crap will hit the fan when major environmental disasters will hit multiple places on the planet, and sadly, (I am hoping not), millions will die.

All ignored, solely because of greed of a very few people (the 1%ers of the 1%ers) in pursuit, of a few more billion dollars.

When is enough, enough? Really. When is it?

Does the quality of life really increase that much when you, having already billions in dollars in wealth, add even more dollars?

Think about it. Do some good w/ the money, help your fellow man. Get involved w/ the welfare of the human race, after all, if it wasn't for us, you wouldn't have had the customers to give you the billions of dollars.