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Originally Posted by multiweb
It just shows that despite all the talks, the agreements, the new technologies and the green washing the net effect is zilch. Nada.
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Not true. We have *already* averted the worst case scenarios, as the world embarks on the great energy transition. We're still on a bad pathway, well above 2C and with awful consequences in the pipeline thanks to decades of denial and delay. But pledges made now already get us closer to 2C, and further ramping up of ambition could stabilise climate between 1.5C and 2C above pre-industrial. Needless to say, Australia's utter lack of ambition is almost the worst in the OECD, and is consistent with a very bad pathway. Fortunately, many countries are doing better than we are.
On each pathway, we would still expect to see record heat and increasing extremes as we've seen, but our goal is to stabilise climate and extremes before these get a great deal worse (they can get a *lot* worse if we give up).