I believe we’re on path SSP1-2.6 – not good.
The world could be better than 1-1.9 – how?
The light blue line could go down to minus 40 by year 2100
- if politicians and companies took serious action for CO2 removals.
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The numbers (1.9 etc.) are not temperature, they’re radiative forcing.
Temperatures are in post 2
SSP = Shared Socio-economic Pathway
y = GtCO2/yr
#ipcc (1/3) Source in post 3
Which path do you believe we're on?
Best estimate of global warming:
SSP1-1.9 1.4 °C
SSP1-2.6 1.8 °C
SSP2-4.5 2.7 °C
Range:
SSP1-1.9 (1.0 °C to 1.8 °C)
SSP1-2.6 (1.3 °C to 2.4 °C)
SSP2-4.5 (2.1 °C to 3.5 °C)
#ipcc (2/3) Source in post 3
Source
PDF:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf
Site:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
Title:
IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.
Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […] Cambridge University Press. In Press.
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