With record breaking fossil fuel production, all time high greenhouse gas emissions and extreme temperatures, we refuse to respond to the climate and ecological crisis with any sense of urgency. In his report for The Conversation, Sir Robert Watson considers the claims from some that global warming can still be limited to no more than 1.5°C. Read the article here.
The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
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