Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC, said it's not helpful to imply that a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is an existential threat to humanity. He calls for a balanced approach to the climate change debate.

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

  • heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Guy said “don’t be hyperbolic about the 1.5c goal because if people feel hopeless they are less likely to act.”

    Then he’s wrong. But it’s more likely you misread the study since that’s not the conclusion.

    • jemorgan@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      My guy I can only imagine how hard it must be to go through life completely illiterate.

      “The belief that climate change is unstoppable reduces the behavioural and policy response to climate change and moderates risk perception.”

      • heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So you are saying

        “The belief that climate change is unstoppable”

        is the same thing as

        “a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is an existential threat to humanity”

        Those are fundamentially different things and you just pulled some study you think is fitting to OPs article. But allright… I’m the one who’s illiterate.