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World on track for catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius warming, UN warns (www.politico.eu)
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Current plans and policies will lead to 2.6 to 3.1 degrees Celsius of global warming this century, with zero chance of limiting the temperature increase to the totemic 1.5C target agreed in Paris in 2015, according to a new report out Thursday.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

20 years ago, probably more. The environment has its own inertia, plus we've set feedbacks into motion that would still go on even if we stopped all we do. Our own emissions was never a large part but more of a catalyst to change the stability of the whole. Cutting it now or not long ago was too late to stop the reaction.