With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences — from the melting of ice sheets to the death of the Amazon rainforest — that could not be reversed.
  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    It’s been hitting and passing and coming close and has exceeded for over a decade now. What a mess we have entered.

    They probably don’t want to say we are past it because there are those that would just be like “oh well, we are fucked now so who cares?”