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Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.
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Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level.
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From a physical science perspective, limiting human-induced global warming to a specific level requires limiting cumulative CO2 emissions, reaching at least net zero CO2 emissions, along with strong reductions in other greenhouse gas emissions. Strong, rapid and sustained reductions in CH4 emissions would also limit the warming effect resulting from declining aerosol pollution and would improve air quality.
like a rose
spiky and angular
in death
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A CODE RED FOR HUMANITY should inspire.
Inevitable. Irreversible. Irrevocable—
—are the new colors the IPCC uses to paint our dire climate picture. Progressing from the old hues, these are more intense shades to view. Which you don’t have to read a whole report, or a policymaker summary, to do. Lurking in the shadowy blacks of all blues.
For the first time, the latest IPCC climate report includes an interactive atlas “OUR POSSIBLE CLIMATE FUTURES”: how beautiful to know cascades via simulation at varying degrees temperature and precipitation. How beautiful to know how much leaders have waited to abate it since the last report. How beautiful to know how now interconnected crises unfold. How beautiful to know terror at different warming scenario thresholds. How beautiful to know how any of it could go. How beautiful— the rose. But,
no.
not as in pretty
but as in (do something)
A CODE RED FOR HUMANITY.