{"id":39055,"date":"2018-10-12T09:49:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39055"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:49:44","slug":"the-ipcc-special-report-mountain-or-molehill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39055","title":{"rendered":"The IPCC Special Report \u2013 mountain or molehill?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The IPCC Special Report \u2013 mountain or molehill?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"According to a number of media sources the just-released IPCC Special Report confirms that climate change is about to fry us (We need massive changes to avoid climate hell<\/a> says Wired Magazine). In fact it adds nothing of significance to what the IPCC concluded in its 2014 Assessment Report (AR5) and provides no new evidence to support the claim that climate change will fry us when warming reaches 1.5 \u2013 2\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels. Effectively all it says is that the impacts of 2\u00b0C of warming will be greater than the impacts of 1.5\u00b0C of warming. In short, it\u2019s a molehill. Or maybe just a medium-sized cow pat.<\/p>\n

The IPCC Special Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u2026. responds to the invitation for IPCC \u2018\u2026 to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways\u2019 contained in the Decision of the 21st Conference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to adopt the Paris Agreement. It will be a key scientific input into the Katowice Climate Change Conference in Poland in December, when governments review the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The results of the report are presented in:<\/p>\n