Here we go again
Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn
The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions.
That’s the stark warning from more than 60 of the world’s leading climate scientists in the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming.
Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above levels of the late 1800s in a landmark agreement in 2015, with the aim of avoiding some of the worst impacts of climate change.
But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests – leaving that international goal in peril.
Oh, OK, they’re hedging their bets on this one. “As little as 3 years.” Remember this?
Greta Thunberg tweeted in 2018 that humanity would go extinct within five years unless fossil fuel use was immediately halted. The prediction came from an article she shared, quoting a “top climate scientist.” By 2023, not only was humanity still here, but global emissions continued and population growth persisted. The tweet was later deleted. (snip)
Al Gore was paraphrased in a 2006 Associated Press article warning that if greenhouse gas emissions weren’t drastically reduced within 10 years, the Earth would reach a point of no return. That put the supposed deadline at 2016. But 2016 came and went without any irreversible cataclysm. Despite rising emissions, the global economy and climate remain intact. (snip)
The head of the UN’s climate panel stated in 2007 that if action wasn’t taken by 2012, it would be too late to stop catastrophic change. The claim was described as a defining moment in the fight against climate change. But no collapse occurred in 2012. The date came and went with minimal consequence.
Those are just a smattering of world is going to die from carbon pollution claims that never happened.
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