For decades, scientists have talked about so-called “committed warming” or the increase in future temperature based on past carbon dioxide emissions that stay in the atmosphere for well over a century. It’s like the distance a speeding car travels after the brakes are applied.
But Monday’s study in the journal Nature Climate Change calculates that a bit differently and now figures the carbon pollution already put in the air will push global temperatures to about 2.3 degrees Celsius (4.1 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming since pre-industrial times.
Previous estimates, including those accepted by international science panels, were about a degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) less than that amount of committed warming.
But it’s not game over because, while that amount of warming may be inevitable, it can be delayed for centuries if the world quickly stops emitting extra greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, the study’s authors say.
they couldn't even lockdown and ban travellers for like two weeks kek
climate catastrophe WILL happen
Is already happening in many places and will only get worse
Fuck we really need an nsfw-style doomer post tag I'm gonna go post hentai of my OC to try to cheer myself up now
That’s the scary truth. When our lives are directly and immediately threatened we can’t even get a majority of Americans to support decisive action. We’ll never get the political will to deal with climate change.