Houses in Ilulissat, Greenland, near the Jakobshavn glacier Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images
For almost a year, climate scientists have sounded one clear message. The world鈥檚 totemic goal of holding average global temperature rises to 1.5掳C is still technically within our grasp, but will slip without a dramatic course correction by humanity.
鈥淯nless there are immediate, strong, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting global warming to 1.5掳C will be beyond reach,鈥 said climate scientist last August, launching the first of three聽landmark reports by the聽Intergovernmental Panel on聽Climate Change (IPCC).…
