UN IPCC Report: Global Temperatures Will Likely Rise Past 1.5° Celsius

An epochal new report from the world’s top climate scientists warns that the planet will warm to 1.5° Celsius in the next two decades without drastic moves to eliminate greenhouse gas pollution. The finding from the United Nations-backed group throws a key goal of the Paris Agreement into danger as signs of climate change become apparent across every part of the world.

The latest scientific assessment from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time speaks with certainty about the total responsibility of human activity for rising temperatures. The scientists forecast no end to warming trends until emissions cease.
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land,” wrote the authors of the IPCC’s sixth global science assessment since 1990 and the first released in more than eight years. The crucial warming threshold of 2°C will be “exceeded during the 21st century,” the IPCC authors concluded, without deep emissions cuts “in the coming decades.”

The report released on Monday is the work of more than 200 scientists digesting thousands of studies, and the summary was approved by delegates from 195 countries. More than any other forecast or record, this report’s determinations establish a powerful global consensus—less than three months before the UN’s COP26 international climate talks.

Among the headline findings: The past decade was most likely hotter than any period in the last 125,000 years, when sea levels were as much as 10 meters higher. Combustion and deforestation have also raised carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere higher than they’ve been in two million years, according to the report, and agriculture and fossil fuels have contributed to methane and nitrous oxide levels higher than any point in at least 800,000 years.

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[APXZR]

Politicians: "we" thee citizens must do better for climate change
Also Politicians:🛫🚀🛬💣🌎💣

[TuxedoTalk]

This being put out by private jet Bloomberg is beautiful.

[VKla-jsbd]

I remind you, many of these people tell us this while flying private jets

[thedude]

Who cares? When the universe decides our time is up, it’s up. We won’t be missed.

[Buleril]

10, 500 years ago the Earth warmed 10° C in about a decade and sea levels rose almost 300 feet completely naturally. People lived through that while wearing animal skins and using stone tools.

[fluxcore]

Why should I listen to the people who are the ones most responsible for human pollution?

[jameymikels]

If it were not for we would be in REAL TROUBLE! Right?

[jaykeck]

I remember being taught the earth warmed to tropical highs and then cooled to ice ages over millions and millions of years... over and over again... do we all of a sudden not think that is happening? Did we forget?

[c.a.t]

I'm sure all the billionaires going to space destroy the atmosphere and environment 1 billion times more than I ever will as a individual in my lifetime...

You want change start at the top. Instead of demonizing those on the bottom

[aardque]

This is not a report, this is someone with OCD saying I told you so.

[NoumenonIdolatry]

NOBODY IS SAFE.
Please lady. Thanks for the doomsday report.

[buildersanswer]

Super mild summer here in NJ after long winter and Spring.

[backcountyrpilot]

For a decade I’ve ben thinking that when the Global Warming scare fades, the next power grab will be Debt Forgiveness.🤷🏼‍♂️

[ralphholiman]

But. Raising taxes will definitely stop this.

[sonnydelight]

I'm doing my part, I WALK to the mailbox.

[grusive]

Fire will happen.. destroying everything…. Storms will happen.. giving rain, and everything grows again…. We’ll be fine

[MrErpman]

Last 2 months here has been cooler than the last several years and it's during the summer. And in Feb we had record cold. They must be "normalizing" data again.

[TheJwbooth]

Warming is OK. Its those massive death dealing freezes that scare the hell out of me . When 100, 000 cattle freeze solid in the field you know the ranchers are still alive because of fossil fuel.

[danielbowen]

When u put thermometers on airport runways the temperature goes up

[chrisholloway]

Sure, obviously the one true answer is centralized, top-down technocratic policies backed by force. We’re all in this together!!!