Why Climate Goals Aren’t a Lost Cause—Even If We Overshoot Them
www.scientificamerican.com
Earth will likely warm by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, but we can’t give up on trying to get temperatures back down

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The key thing here is that the less overshoot the better, and the amount of overshoot we can afford is small.

  • astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Well Iran vs Israel is already happening and escalating into probably a forever war but I doubt war will help climate change War itself also causes a fuck ton of emissions and environmental damage

    • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It hasn’t really ramped up to anywhere near the levels I am talking about yet. I am looking at it from a perspective of WW3 woth billions dead before it lowers carbon emissions. Pretty that carbon will not be our worst concern among all of the fallout.