Drudge headline, not mine, although the article's intent is perfectly clear (and chock full of shit).
[Phys.org] US President Donald Trump's pullout from the Paris Agreement will push up global temperatures nearly half a degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100, according to a report released Wednesday at UN climate talks in Bonn.
If all countries‐including the United States‐honour carbon-cutting pledges under the 196-nation treaty, the world would see 2.8 C of global warming above pre-industrial levels, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) research group had previously calculated.
That is not nearly good enough to avoid climate catastrophe, scientists say.
I've been following this crap for approximately forty years. It was every bit as alarmist, hysterical and flat out unpersuasive then as it is now. |