To be clear: The researchers are happy with the agreement, itself, but not with the steps that countries are committing to take under it. “I really think the world is definitely on a pathway, as we’re suggesting in that paper, past the 2 degree world,” Watson said. Thus 1.5 degrees has emerged as the new red-line number, especially for small island states and developing countries. The researchers assert that countries of the world must rapidly up their levels of ambition when it comes to cutting emissions. All of which may make it even more clear why climate scientists are so increasingly terrified by Trump, who not only denies human-caused climate change, but would apparently try to scuttle the Paris agreement entirely.

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 18:22 UTC