Top yet contested climate scientist declares 2C climate goal 'dead'
www.rfi.fr
Holding long-term global warming to two degrees Celsius -- the fallback target of the Paris climate accord -- is now "impossible," according to a stark though hotly debated new analysis published by…

Welp, it’s official. Been a good(?) run everyone. Here is the paper that is referred to.

Edit: So, reading the actual paper, the article is somewhat sensationalized (shocker, i know). It is still possible to prevent collapse, but it requires extensive and fairly quick reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

  • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    well yeah if you look at it like that, then it might seem so. but they’re underestimating exponential growth

    sources for the pictures: the first two are from ourworldindata.org, the last one is a plot i made my self, based on the extrapolation in the third picture.