Wherever you look, you'll hear headlines claiming we've passed 1.5 degrees of global warming. And while 2024 saw record breaking climate change, this might not actually be true. So what does the 1.5 degree limit actual mean for the climate? Have we already passed this global warming threshold? And what do we do now, to combat climate change?
Thanks to Joeri Rogelj for his input on this episode - follow him here: https://bsky.app/profile/joerirogelj.bsky.social/
0:00 Intro
1:30 Why 1.5 matters
3:58 Have we passed the limit?
8:41 Will we pass it?
9:32 Is it game over?
10:37 Tipping point(s)
11:27 Bad Info
12:31 Who's "we"
13:09 More than 2 degrees
14:00 What do we do
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==MORE INFO==
Paris Agreement text https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/english_paris_agreement.pdf
Interpretting the 1.5 goal/limit https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-interpreting-paris-agreements-1-point-5-c-temperature-limit/
Rate we need to cut emissions: https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024
CO2 concentrations rising above 1.5 degree pathways https://www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-atmospheric-co2-rise-now-exceeding-ipcc-1-5c-pathways/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-01-17&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+17+01+2025
Why we shouldn’t give up on the target: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ambitious-global-warming-target-still-feasible-and-necessary-by-joeri-rogelj-2024-06
The political discussions leading to 1.5 https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/sb/eng/inf01.pdf
Annual updates of the level of global warming and remaining carbon budget (updated in May/June every year) https://climatechangetracker.org/igcc
Met Office’s analysis of current warming levels https://climate.metoffice.cloud/current_warming.html
==CREDITS==
Global temperatures from Nasa Goddard & Nasa Climate Change
Coal demolition from Phil MacDonald
Climate protest footage from 350.org