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submitted 1 month ago by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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And guess what ... most of the people who 'did what they could' just kept driving their cars. 'What choice did we have?' None.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We’re on our way to more than a three-degree temperature rise by the end of this century.

Fwiw, I recently saw a projection that we’re currently on a 2.9° path

We passed the seventh boundary this year, and we’re in the extreme danger zone.

But that’s much scarier. These boundaries weren’t defined back when we thought it was mainly about temperature