IPCC
The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. What is the future of the planet?In what direction is global warming going?Is there hope to avoid the worst?Are we still in time to stop the rise in temperatures?It's causing a lot of discussion survey of Guardian which asked 380 climate scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) what they predict for the future of our planet.According to the majority of experts contacted, by 2100 global temperatures will rise by at least 2.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels, almost half a global warming of 3°C, while just 6% believe that the 1.5°C agreed with the Paris Agreement in 2015. The limit of 1.5°C has been indicated by the international community as a threshold beyond which not to go in order to avoid it the triggering of dangerous chain effects which could irreparably damage some ecosystems of our planet with catastrophic consequence...
The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. “Act now or it will be too late.”The final part of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he threw yet another warning.Always the same, almost a litany.Heard, also repeated by political leaders but which does not turn into immediate actions.These are diluted, however, in the complex compromises between politics, industrial groups, energy companies and markets, without considering the economic and social repercussions of the energy transition. Climate Conferences are a mirror of these complex relationships of force:the first week to say that there isn't much time, the second - that of political negotiations - to explain that time is needed.And while we spend our lovely Sundays at home discussing washable paints, demonstration actions and urban decoration, the IPCC "Synthesis report" tells everyone that what we have before us is the last window of...