{"id":39038,"date":"2018-10-12T09:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39038"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:13:13","slug":"is-there-hope-and-a-world-warming-at-1-5-degrees-celsius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39038","title":{"rendered":"Is There Hope and a World Warming at 1.5 Degrees Celsius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is There Hope and a World Warming at 1.5 Degrees Celsius<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source NASA\u2019s Earth Observatory | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded the finalization of a\u00a0special report<\/a>\u00a0on the impact of a 1.5 degree Celsius global warming above preindustrial levels.\u00a0 Meeting in Incheon, South Korea (October 1-5), its three working groups of experts and government officials have huddled and jousted to strike a consensus on what will be necessary to restrict warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius when the globe is already up a degree.\u00a0 What will earth be like with this level of warmth and what will happen if we fail?<\/p>\n

Two earlier versions (January and June 2018) of the report were depressing to frightening.\u00a0 They were made available for about a month for comment by experts and interested parties.\u00a0 The real problem is a narrow window because human activity in the world\u00a0emits 40 billion tons of CO2 per year<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 about 90 times the emission from volcanoes.\u00a0 At some point, there will be enough in the atmosphere where the 1.5 degree rise will be a foregone conclusion.\u00a0 While guesswork to some extent, it appears we have about 12 years before we exhaust the\u00a0\u2018carbon budget\u2019; if we accept a 2C rise the date is 2045<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tone may have been softened in the second report, but there is \u2018substantial\u2019 certainty the 2 degrees C target of the 2015 Paris Agreement,\u00a0once considered safe, would be dangerous for humanity<\/a>.\u00a0 As the agreement also required governments to pursue efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C, the remit to IPCC was to prepare a report comparing the consequences of the two alternatives as well as the feasibility and effort required to limit the rise to the lower figure.\u00a0 The final report released on Oct 8, 2018 reviews 30,000 publications.<\/p>\n

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Is There Hope and a World Warming at 1.5 Degrees Celsius Photo Source NASA\u2019s Earth Observatory | CC BY 2.0 The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change has concluded the finalization of a\u00a0special report\u00a0on the impact of a 1.5 degree Celsius global warming above preindustrial levels.\u00a0 Meeting in Incheon, South Korea (October 1-5), its three working […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20493,3193,113,141,1004,5493,369,5161,440],"class_list":["post-39038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-arshad-khan","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-counterpunch","tag-global-warming","tag-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change","tag-ipcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39039,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39038\/revisions\/39039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}