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Tag Archives: 2C target
The two-degree delusion?
Ted Nordhaus, of Breakthrough Institute fame, has a recent article in Foreign Affairs called [t]he two-degree delusion. Basically, it argues that we cannot possibly achieve this target without harming the poor, and that continuing to try and do so also … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, GRRRROWTH, Policy
Tagged 2C target, Adaptation, Emission reductions, Ted Nordhaus, The Breakthrough Institute
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More time …. really?
A recent paper about [e]mission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C essentially argues that it is still possible to follow an emission pathway that will give us a good chance of keeping warming below 1.5oC. More specifically, … Continue reading
Temperature targets
I realise Michael Tobis is planning a follow-up to his post, but I thought would quickly pen this post about temperature targets, for example the Paris target of keeping the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C above … Continue reading
A new baseline?
Ed Hawkins and colleagues have a new paper called Estimating changes in global temperature since pre-industrial times, which Ed also discusses in this post. The basic suggestion seems to be that we should probably be defining pre-industrial as the period … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, IPCC, Research, Science
Tagged 2C target, Carbon brief, Carbon budget, Climate lab book, Ed Hawkins, pre-industrial, Temperature target
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Zero emissions
David Roberts has a recent post that I’ve only just noticed called why zero is a better climate target than 2 degrees. The zero refers to net global emissions, not to temperature. The argument is essentially that zero is a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, IPCC, Science
Tagged 2C target, COP21, David Roberts, Emissions target, Vox, Zero emissions
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1.5C?
I think that the negotiators in Paris are pretty close to reaching an agreement (may have already done so). There’s a draft version here. Maybe the most interesting aspect of the agreement is the paragraph below: Emphasizing with serious concern … Continue reading
Censoring their own research?
This is going to be my last post about the whole 2oC pathways issue, I promise 🙂 I was wanting, however, to discuss this Washington Post article called The magic number. It quotes Kevin Anderson, whose work I’ve discussed before. … Continue reading
The 2C fantasy?
In the run up to the Paris meeting there seem to be a number of people focusing on the idea that the 2oC limit is essentially now a fantasy. There’s a post by Andy Revkin, and there’s a Nature feature … Continue reading
The 1C milestone
Just a quick post to highlight that – according to the UK Met Office – 2015 is likely to be 1oC above pre-industrial – well, 1oC above the 1850 to 1900 average. If you think that we should have a … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Science
Tagged 1C, 2C target, Emission reductions, emissions, Halfway there, Kevin Anderson
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