A growing body of scientific evidence now suggests that, due to rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emission levels in the atmosphere, the world is on track to overshoot the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C target within the next three years, pushing the planet beyond a critical threshold faster than previously feared.
The dire warning comes from the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming, led by a group of international researchers and published in Earth System Science Data earlier this month. The report was signed by over 60 scientists across 17 countries.
I thought we passed 1.5C last year?
At this point it is just shifting goalposts.
No one wants to admit that humanity is fucked because then all efforts (what little efforts those may be) to calm the incoming storm will come to a halt.
Plus the powers that be are intentionally trying to prevent mass panic by sanitizing the message as still being hopeful so that people continue to engage with their respective economies. Most people only go to work because they think they are working towards some type of future. Tell them there is none and they no longer will go into their jobs to generate revenue for the oligarchy to profit from. The oligarchy doesn’t want that.
IIRC, it has to be passed for 3 years in succession.