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World on track for catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius warming, UN warns
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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?
Hard to say, but there’s always xkcd…. https://xkcd.com/1732/
Always an upvote for relevant xkcd
20 years ago, probably more. The environment has its own inertia, plus we've set feedbacks into motion that would still go on even if we stopped all we do. Our own emissions was never a large part but more of a catalyst to change the stability of the whole. Cutting it now or not long ago was too late to stop the reaction.