The Paris temperature limits, and also the planetary boundary thresholds, are often incorrectly seen as fundamental features of planet, when they are really policy judgments, geopolitically and socio-culturally mediated verdicts on the levels of change that the world may consider dangerous. (1/2)
That's why doom-ism irks many experts. The message of climate science is not “1.5°C or bust.” It is that “every action counts.” To put it simply, the IPCC reports find that he more that the world can do to reduce emissions, the less the planet will warm, and the less that people will suffer. (2/2)
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