- 07 Sep 2019 02:11
#15032258
For further context, a rise of 1C is pretty bad, but "north of 4C" is an outright extinction event.
Sivad wrote::knife: That's the sensitivity estimate. The IPCC "business as usual" projection is north of 4c:
"The scenario with the most warming is the ‘business-as-usual’ RCP8.5, in which global mean temperature could be 4°C or more above pre-industrial times."
http://climatica.org.uk/ipcc-long-term- ... rojections
For further context, a rise of 1C is pretty bad, but "north of 4C" is an outright extinction event.