Photo: HTNew York: Climate negotiators inserted a dramatic charge in the 2015 Paris accord, asking world leaders to strive to keep global temperatures at just 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Their overall message to climate envoys meeting in Bonn, Germany this week: Better get cracking. “We would need an incredibly dramatic reduction in emissions in the very near future,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with Berkeley Earth. Another study found that if all emissions magically stopped, the planet would eventually warm between 1.1 degrees to 1.5 degrees. “Since 2020 is just a few years away, this is a highly optimistic option,” they write, with an understatement characteristic of the climate scientists.

Source: Mint November 16, 2017 07:30 UTC