<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1059884" class="has-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 136, 204); transition: 0.1s linear; text-decoration: none; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; min-height: 125px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-right: 110px;" class=""><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Climate scientists express their views on possible future climate scenarios in a new study</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 19px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; line-height: 19px;" class="">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.</p></div></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); margin-right: 110px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;">JOURNAL</dt><dd style="font-size: 12px; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Communications Earth & Environment</em></dd></dl></a><div class=""><b class="">2 key excerpts from news release</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 15px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Co-author <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/damon-matthews.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); transition: 0.1s linear; text-decoration: none;" class="">Damon Matthews</a>, a professor in the <a href="https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/geography-planning-environment.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); transition: 0.1s linear; text-decoration: none;" class="">Department of Geography, Planning and Environment</a>, notes that t</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">his does not mean that level of warming is inevitable."</span></p><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“Ultimately, the decision as to what we do and how we respond to the climate challenge is up to policymakers and the public t</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">hat they represent, and I think the full range of outcomes is still very much on the table.”</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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