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It's very likely an existential threat. We're currently on-track for a +5°C increase in temperature by 2050. Besides wreaking havoc to all existing ecosystems, it's also very likely that this will kill off most of the phytoplankton in the oceans. That's the stuff that makes most of the O2 for us. There's no way we (humans) are going to survive this scenario.
>It's very likely an existential threat. Al Gore is of the opinion that it's not. You can take that with a grain of salt because Al Gore's predictions have been quite incorrect. He claimed the Icecaps would be completely gone 6+ years ago. He claimed Florida and India would be under water today. >We're currently on-track for a +5°C increase in temperature by 2050. I'm happy to tell you that it's not. The source of th…
> In fact we are on track for RCP4.5 despite not doing what IPCC says we need to do to reach this. This is great news.
From my current understanding, that's not the case, is it?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200831112101.h...
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/after-40-years-resea...