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Woah woah woah, the 2° C scenario is definitely not what happens if we burn all remaining fossil fuels. IPCC's A1FI scenario which more or less describes that '
by nickparker 10y ago
Woah woah woah, the 2° C scenario is definitely not what happens if we burn all remaining fossil fuels. IPCC's A1FI scenario which more or less describes that 'plan' (A1FI actually still predicts an eventual transition to renewables...) has a predicted temperature increase of 2.4 - 6.4° C.
2°C is what the Paris Accords expect us to get with significant changes. We're already at 1.3° C.
- lettergram 10y ago> We're already at 1.3° C You can't really make that claim yet. The sun is also at the peak of it's 30 year output cycle (and I believe there's also a greater cycle as well). We can't know the full effect for decades probably. Which is kind of the point of my statement. We can freak out all we want, but the world will survive and the world (probably humanity) has faced much harder times with much worse technology. Just trying to keep things in perspective.