UNEP: 1.5C climate target ‘slipping out of reach’ | Carbon Brief
Unless the world begins to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions the 1.5C goal of the Paris Agreement “will slip out of reach,”
"The annual report, now in its 10th year, provides a “bleak” assessment of the ever-growing gap between actual emission reduction commitments by countries and those necessary to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement: to limit warming to “well-below 2C above preindustrial levels” and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C.
Global CO2 emissions have increased by around 11% since the first UNEP emissions gap report in 2010. Each year of growing global emissions means that deeper and faster cuts are needed to meet the Paris Agreement targets, and increases the amount of CO2 that would need to be removed from the atmosphere through negative emissions to make the 1.5C target viable.
The 2019 emission gap report suggests that there is no sign of GHG emissions peaking in the next few years. Even if countries meet their existing climate pledges (nationally determined contributions, NDCs) emissions will continue to rise modestly over the next decade, it says. By 2030, the UNEP report estimates that emissions will be 27% and 38% higher than is needed to limit warming to 2C and 1.5C, respectively."
Oh for goodness sake...........here is the science facts.
The planet controls the climate. It has gone through freeze and thaw since time began. In the last Interglacial period the oceans were 10 to 12 metres higher than they are today.
Enter humans 200,000 years ago.....just before the last ice age. Being the way we are we chopped, chopped, cleared and burned...burned and burned again anything that would burn....because we discovered fire and became natural pyros........... Fire kept humans alive through the the last ice age., we as a species nearly became extinct 70,000 years ago..........there were about 30,000 left on the whole planet.......with a whole lot more forest.
Fast forward to today......... we are still burning, still clearing, still chopping and digging holes for mining....
If we had half the forests that we have cleared over thousands of years there would be no hysterics.
The Earths axis changes dictate the climate.........humans have accelerated it by clearing the world's forests. Deforestation.
We are elongating the interglacial period by warming...........we should have entered the early ages of ice 300 years ago.
The oceans will eventually rise and cover what they covered and have covered, frozen and thawed over millions of years...since time here began.
Just that stupid humans built their cities in low lying areas. Australian Aboriginals walked here...not sailed....most of the worlds land bridges went under 6,000 years ago...........sea levels were 100 metres lower back then.....then because of Earths axial shifts.....it thawed and they were flooded.
This is proved science........not theoretical. You build anywhere on sand, or with some sand or loam cover........it has been under water.
