But to breach the Paris agreement’s limit, the heating must be sustained for many years.
  • Thevenin@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Misleading. Useful information, but the definitions are misleading.

    • This is based on projections of the remainder of 2023.
    • This is based on a 1-year measurement in the middle of an El Niño rather than a 5-year rolling average.
    • This assumes a lower holocene optimum than organizations like NOAA use. NOAA is calling this a 1.25°C anomaly.

    We haven’t hit 1.5°C yet, at least not by the conventional definitions. So the next time you see the IPCC outlining mitigation pathways to keep warming to 1.5°C, please don’t go posting this article saying, “we already passed that point lol.”