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1⃣If anyone wants my “take” on the latest IPCC report then here goes (will be writing something about this later, but to be honest, this thread will probably allow me to say what I want to say more effectively). 2⃣1.5°C is over. We now have to imagine the most fabulous scenarios to truly honour the Paris Agreement. That includes increasingly including large-scale removal of CO2 from the atmosphere to drag down temps after “overshooting”. 3⃣We are still firmly on course for around 3°C by end of century. But really these end of century and even mid-century projections & targets are meaningless. What we need is the reduction of fossil fuel use NOW (sorry for shouting). 4⃣The reason we’re not cutting fossil fuel use is not because it’s really hard (it is) or represents huge challenges for finance (it does). It’s because a tiny fraction of humanity is resisting with all of its considerable power. Power it has accrued with fossil fuels.
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