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1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’
(www.theguardian.com)
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RCP8.5, baby! Line must go up!
We're not quite that bad right now; efforts already taken probably dropped it to something more like 3°C of warming by 2100 with further warming thereafter.
Yeah, I think given current trajectories somewhere between RCP 3.4 and 4.5, with emissions peaking around 2050. Given technological and political headwinds, I just can't see emissions peaking in 2080 or 2100 with growth rates already slowing globally and peaking in North America and Europe