{"id":38745,"date":"2018-10-05T07:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38745"},"modified":"2018-10-05T07:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:24:30","slug":"with-the-world-on-the-line-scientists-outline-the-paths-to-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38745","title":{"rendered":"With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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This week, scientists and representatives from every country on Earth are gathering in South Korea to put the finishing touches on a report that, if followed, would change the course of history.<\/p>\n

The report is a roadmap for possible ways to keep climate change to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. Anything beyond that amount of warming, and the planet starts to really go haywire. So the International Panel on Climate Change \u2014 a U.N.-sponsored,\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize-winning<\/a> assemblage of scientists \u2014 wants to show how we can avoid that. To be clear, hitting that goal would require a radical rethink in almost every aspect of society. But the report finds that not meeting the goal would upend life as we know it, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be one of the most important meetings in the IPCC\u2019s history,\u201d said Hoesung Lee, the group\u2019s chair, in his opening address<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

The report will be released on October 8. From leaked drafts<\/a>, we know the basics of scientists\u2019 findings<\/a>: World greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2020 \u2014 just 15 months from now. The scientists also show the difference in impacts between 1.5 and 2 degrees would not be minor<\/a> \u2014 it could be make-or-break for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, for example, which would flood every coastal city on Earth should it collapse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe decisions we make now about whether we let 1.5 or 2 degrees or more happen will change the world enormously,\u201d said Heleen de Coninck, a Dutch climate scientist and one of the report\u2019s lead authors, in an interview with the BBC<\/a>. \u201cThe lives of people will never be the same again either way, but we can influence which future we end up with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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