StarEditorial: Latest report from the UN climate change panel offers a grim view of the future unless human activities are changed.
and turn instead to climatologist Peter Thorne, one of the report’s authors. In a question-and-answer session with media after the report’s release Monday the query posed was this: based on current science, when could we expect global temperatures to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius over preindustrial levels?“Almost irrespective of our emissions choices in the near term, we will probably reach one and a half degrees in the first half of the next decade.
It was a notably cruel irony that as global participants, including Canada, wrangled over the report’s final wording in Interlaken, Switzerland, Cyclone , and breaks out climate indicators by segment. By example, the human contribution to sea level rise is defined as “very likely,” the ocean heat content increase since the 1970s as “extremely likely,” and the acidification of the global surface ocean as “virtually certain.” The human contribution to the warming of the global climate system since preindustrial times: “fact.” On all of this there is now, at last, international agreement.
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