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Originally Posted by andyc
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).
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We've seen these graphs for the past decade and pledges are a plenty but nothing concrete gets done. Predictions and models don't change the fact that the raw data is still on its exponential rise. The combined effect of all the measures put in place over the years didn't change a thing. The renewables' energy was used on top of everything else we use. It never replaced anything. It allowed us to use more and feel good about it. Now we've entered into a phase of feedback loops that cause added CO2 due to uncontrolable fires on a global scale. The climate momentum is such that if we stopped cold today it would still go over 2c. There area lot of things that we could have done and that we could still do but it goes against everyone's comfort and "the economy". Stop consuming. That's the simple answer. But who's going to do that?
