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World on track for catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius warming, UN warns (www.politico.eu)
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Current plans and policies will lead to 2.6 to 3.1 degrees Celsius of global warming this century, with zero chance of limiting the temperature increase to the totemic 1.5C target agreed in Paris in 2015, according to a new report out Thursday.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

In case it makes someone pay attention, I really want to know the absolute drop dead point. It’s impossible to instantly and completely stop all manmade carbon emissions, but if we could, what is the point where that is still not enough to achieve our target limit? Have we already passed that?