There’s Still Time to Grab Control of the Global Thermostat
Holding to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial averages is becoming more of a stretch goal, but it’s imperative to keep striving for it.
Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Every tenth of a degree of heating the planet avoids will save countless lives and untold billions of dollars.
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In 2015, in what seemed at the time like a triumph for humanity, the world’s leaders set a stretch goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial averages. Not even nine years later, you could be forgiven for thinking they’ve failed.
The good news is that they haven’t failed just yet. The bad news is that they’re rapidly running out of time.
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There’s Still Time to Grab Control of the Global Thermostat