cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1282318
Ultimately, the progress we have made should encourage us that progress is possible, but the large and growing gap between where we are headed today and what is needed to limit warming to well-below 2C means that we need to double down and light a (carbon-free) fire under policymakers to ratchet up emissions reductions over the next decade. Flattening the curve of global emissions is only the first step in a long road to get it all the way down to zero.
“If we do not start reducing global emissions over the coming decade, plausible scenarios to limit warming to below 2C will move out of reach as well.”
Aren’t we already plausibly tracking roughly +2.7 °C or so?
We are 100% going to hit +1.5 °C already in the early 2030s.