There was a dangerous underestimation of the scale of the climate crisis we face at COP26,聽argues聽David Spratt. Targets for 2025 and聽2030 need to be the focus.
Climate Code Red
Global warming of 1.5掳C is imminent, likely in just a decade from now. David Spratt reviews several recent studies that point to this alarming conclusion.
So how does hitting warming of 1.5掳C one decade from now square with the 2015 Paris Agreement鈥檚 goal of 鈥渉olding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2掳C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5掳C鈥?
In two words, it doesn鈥檛.