Study: It's still possible to limit climate change to 1.5°C if some countries go beyond their own targets
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A new study in Nature Communications finds that limiting global warming to 1.5 °C is still possible, but some countries require support to meet their climate responsibilities. An "additional carbon accountability" indicator is introduced, revealing that the EU and 17 other countries must exceed their own current targets to achieve this global goal.
    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
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      6 days ago

      We could do it.

      That graph with all the lines taking all of a sudden a massive spike downwards, including China’s which right before D-day was climbing steadily upwards, looks like pure absurdist comedy, sure.

      But we could do it. There’s still time.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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        6 days ago

        There’s simply too much baked into the climate’s inertial change and the expected/already started feedbacks. We haven’t change enough to show progress, and are already touching the limits in some methods of measurement. The IPCC gave up years ago and admitted we will shoot past 1.5 but would just use future tech that doesn’t exist to pull it back down.

        I know there’s a drive to try and look at the positive, especially since anything but is called doomerism and even blamed for the inaction. I wonder how long we’re going to keep fooling ourselves that we can fix this and even go backwards. We need to accept where we’re going and plan for adaptation for a harsher world. Can’t wait until we shift into “if we can just keep limits below 2.0” while not changing anything.