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World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
9th February 2024
The EU's Climate Service has highlighted the fact that the 2015 pledge to limit long-term temperature increases to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels is already under threat and that there's need for action to cut carbon emissions.
It's a lovely example of a basic co-ordination problem, the absence of accountability in the setting of these targets and reinforces a central tenet of economics, that people need to be incentivised to act appropriately, to counter global warming.
1.5°C is so dead. But remember: every extra bit of fossil fuel bunt makes the planet a little irreversibly hotter making all impacts worse. Arbitrary thresholds are not as important as ending the cause of this nightmare: the fossil fuel industryhttps://t.co/USXdhZBp7T
— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) February 8, 2024
1.5°C is so dead. But remember: every extra bit of fossil fuel bunt makes the planet a little irreversibly hotter making all impacts worse. Arbitrary thresholds are not as important as ending the cause of this nightmare: the fossil fuel industryhttps://t.co/USXdhZBp7T
— Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) February 8, 2024
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Graham Watson
Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to tutor2u, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.
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