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Best-case scenario for climate change is now 1.6掳C of warming

The totemic climate goal of keeping warming below 1.5掳C above pre-industrial levels is essentially impossible at this point

By Madeleine Cuff

19 August 2024

The sun is setting on 1.5掳C

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Humanity’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5掳C above pre-industrial levels, which has been totemic in climate policy for the past decade, is now almost certainly out of reach. Limiting warming to 1.6掳C has become the best-case scenario for climate action, with the hope of bringing temperatures back to 1.5掳C later in the century using technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

鈥1.5掳C without overshoot is not attainable,鈥 says at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research in Germany. 鈥淵ou definitely therefore…

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