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Mon, 2018-10-08 10:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - REPORT - Global Warming of 1.5°C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty

Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC

the guardian.com - by Jonathan Watts - October 8, 2018

The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.

The authors of the landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Monday say urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to reach the target, which they say is affordable and feasible although it lies at the most ambitious end of the Paris agreement pledge to keep temperatures between 1.5C and 2C.

 
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Mon, 2018-10-08 10:34 — Maeryn Obley

Additional article on this topic from the BBC:

It's the final call, say scientists, the most extensive warning yet on the risks of rising global temperatures.

Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C.

Keeping to the preferred target of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels will mean "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society".

Wed, 2018-10-24 15:42 — mdmcdonald

As we continue our transformative work in many climate-related disaster areas and high risk areas, such at Dominica, Puerto Rico, and throughout Florida, the Carolinas, the numbers of climate refugees are aleady mounting.  Getting back from the Global Resilience Transformation meeting in Italy, it is clear that there are constructive approaches that can be taken now to transform our dirty and dangerous petro political economy to a green political economy.  However, transformation will likely require overcoming substantially capitalized industries that will attempt to maintain a destructive status quo, even if it means the destruction of the planet and mass die-offs.  

We are now beyond the point of diminishing returns from the petro political economy.  We know that climate-resilient communities of opportunity are already feasible.  Trillions of dollars are being divested from oil and gas, dirty utilities and other petro-dependent businesses.  We are entering the era of mass investment and scaling up of green tech and trade. 

Sun, 2018-11-25 19:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

vox.com - by Umair Irfan - October 9, 2018

1.  2°C of warming is worse than 1.5°C, and 1.5°C is much worse than the 1°C we’re experiencing now

2.  We need every trick in the book to fight climate change, and we need to get much better at removing carbon from the atmosphere

3.  Policies and economics weren’t addressed in the IPCC report, but they’re impossible to ignore

4.  We can still fight climate change, but we’re locked into a difficult scenario

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