RT @ExtinctionR: An excellent and super simple summary of the #IPCC Special Report in haiku form. The good news?

“Adapt, mitigate…

#IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC #SR15

Jim Skea #IPCC Working Group III Co-Chair presents key finding of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C…

RT @climatecouncil: The new #IPCC report "shows we only have the slimmest of opportunities remaining to avoid unthinkable damage to the…

Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new “pathways” that examine how global society, demographics and economics might change over the next century. They are collectively known as the “Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” (SSPs).

These SSPs are now being used as important inputs for the latest climate models, feeding into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report due to be published in 2020-21. They are also being used to explore how societal choices will affect greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, how the climate goals of the Paris Agreement could be met.

The new SSPs offer five pathways that the world could take. Compared to previous scenarios, these offer a broader view of a “business as usual” world without future climate policy, with global warming in 2100 ranging from a low of 3.1C to a high of 5.1C above pre-industrial levels.

«You voted en masse for the status quo and the corporate teat-sucklers. Now Darby and Klein and Guenther trip over themselves to let you off the hook, to blame Capitalism and Neoliberalism and its stranglehold on the groupthink of modern politics— but how did you end up with leaders who so willingly abased themselves at that altar in the first place, you ignorant shit-heads? There were always alternatives, and you saw them, and you laughed.»

.... and the #IPCC do not even mention CO2 reduction that is possible with nuclear-powered oceangoing #shipping. Re…

The IPCC says carbon dioxide removal is needed to limit climate change to 1.5C. But negative emissions technologies (NETs) are largely unproven.

World leaders have a "moral obligation" to #ActOnClimate after this week's #IPCC report: a half degree of extra war…

RT @nicgaston: Was worried I hadn’t said everything I wanted to about the #IPCC report, but apparently I upset a few of Leighton’s…

Earlier today in South Korea, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its long-awaited special report on 1.5C.

RT @MCNisbet: 1. I woke up Monday morning rattled by the conclusions of the new #IPCC report and the news coverage it has generat…