World's top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target

[Uncle Joe]

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet, an exclusive Guardian survey has revealed.

Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half anticipate at least 3C (5.4F). Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C (2.7F) limit would be met.

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The Guardian approached every contactable lead author or review editor of IPCC reports since 2018. Almost half replied, 380 of 843. The IPCC’s reports are the gold standard assessments of climate change, approved by all governments and produced by experts in physical and social sciences. The results show that many of the most knowledgeable people on the planet expect climate havoc to unfold in the coming decades.

The climate crisis is already causing profound damage to lives and livelihoods across the world, with only 1.2C (2.16F) of global heating on average over the past four years. Jesse Keenan, at Tulane University in the US, said: “This is just the beginning: buckle up.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

[Think. Again.]

1. Thank you for posting this.

[CrispyQ]

2. Future generations will never forgive us.

And I mean generations not that far in the future. I look at the first & second graders running around my neighborhood & wonder what the planet will look like when they're thirty.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I was thinking when I posted the OP

that today's focus on the word "stormy" will have an ironic if not bitter twist to younger generations.

[global1]

3. So If Tr**p Doesn't Get Us.....

global climate change will.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Actually I believe *rump's rise and the growing awareness

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of climate change are intricately tied together.

The global oligarchs and owners of the major fossil fuel producers saw global warming and knew it was for real, but were more concerned about it as a personal or bottom line threat and decided to abandon the people in favor of building or buying "life boats" and islands for their survival for when it all hits the fan.

The oligarchs own the vast majority of the corporate media so it was easy for them to ignore in the 1990s before the rise of the Internet, the foremost political leader in the fight against global warming warnings in favor of someone dedicated to fossil fuels and basic ignorance.

Had global warming been treated as the existential threat that it is in the 1990s, there is no way a fossil fuel adherent gets close in a Presidential election, of course he still lost by half a million votes.

That set the political table for *rump's dining with fear and ignorance beings the only items on the menu.

I view *rump as a direct consequence of climate change and vast, dysfunctional wealth disparity.

[c-rational]

6. My gut says this is correct, and we have been misled by corporate media who tamped down

on any alarms being sounded by the truthful class of citizens - the scientists. I truly do not understand how the majority of human beings who had a ability to sound an alarm would remain silent, especially when we could have "used an insurance card" to guard against the worst of climate change.

At this stage, my hope is nuclear fusion and geoengineering decarbonization of the atmosphere on a global scale. Where is AI when you need it.

Final point, as most coputer platforms now have an AI feature, and the corporations use the masses to train it, AI. I suggest we all ask questions about global warming. Maybe it will be smart enough to spit out we are truly endangered. Not sure if we open enough eyes at this point will it be enough. The altenative of doing nothing is not acceptable to me.