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The currently measured temps are nowhere near reality. We're already way past 1.5ºC if we consider aerosols cooling, climate lag, and feedbacks. We've already e
by pier25 4y ago
The currently measured temps are nowhere near reality. We're already way past 1.5ºC if we consider aerosols cooling, climate lag, and feedbacks. We've already eaten and really just waiting for the bill. Even if a miracle happened today and we reached zero emissions it wouldn't change that.
But considering that our global emissions are huge and population keeps growing I'd be very surprised if we didn't reach 2ºC in a couple of decades. Even with the efforts of some countries in reducing emissions, our per capita global emissions have been hovering between 4-5t since the 70s and we're probably going the break past 5t in the next years.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&time=1916..latest https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
The only way out of this are very strong negative emissions. That is, reducing emissions and removing carbon from the atmosphere.