[MCN] Majority of climate experts expect heat level to rise "far higher than the 2015 Paris Agreement targets of 1.5 to well-below 2°C."

[Lance Olsen]

Climate scientists express their views on possible future climate scenarios in a new study
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION

A new survey of climate experts reveals that a majority believes the Earth to be headed for a rise in global temperatures far higher than the 2015 Paris Agreement targets of 1.5 to well-below 2°C.

JOURNAL
Communications Earth & Environment
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1059884>2 key excerpts from news release

"Co-author Damon Matthews <https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/damon-matthews.html>, a professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment <https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/geography-planning-environment.html>, notes that this does not mean that level of warming is inevitable."

“Ultimately, the decision as to what we do and how we respond to the climate challenge is up to policymakers and the public that they represent, and I think the full range of outcomes is still very much on the table.”

 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1059884
 
 
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“One can quibble with with some assumptions or tweak Smil's calculations, but the bottom line will not change, 
only the time it may take humanity to reach a crisis point.”

Stephen Running. “Approaching the Limits” Science 15 March 2013.

Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature. by Vaclav Smil .  
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN 9780262018562.

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