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EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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Sound like bullshit. We already had +1.45°C last year¹ and even if we completely stopped emitting anything at all, our excessive emissions from the past will certainly cause the temperature to rise over 1.5°C. The emissions path for 1.5°C would need to be negative very soon or maybe even years ago.
¹ https://wmo.int/media/news/wmo-confirms-2023-smashes-global-temperature-record
To go into negative emissions we just have to ramp up carbon capture and sequestering...
looks at all the past and current CCS and DAC prototypes so far
Oh no...
CCS is right now as feasible as fusion.
You see if we get fusion working we can use that energy to capture carbon... /s
That's Star Trek levels of optimism right there.