On: Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth

[teawrecks]

If we're already going to have to heavily adapt our living arrangements to account for extreme climate change, at what point does 0.1° not matter? 5.0° vs 5.1°? 10.0° vs 10.1°?

[BiteCode_dev → teawrecks]

It's an average on the whole planet and the whole year.

0.1 on average can mean huge spikes on some parts of the globe.

[Kye → teawrecks]

The difference is how many billions of dollars it costs, and by proxy, who can afford to survive climate change.

[hackerlight → teawrecks]

Learn the concept of marginality. Things get progressively worse. Reality is usually not a binary switch.

[mlyle → teawrecks]

Just think of that 0.1C as an incremental step making even more of what's currently productive agricultural land, not. Can you give up a little more? Maybe... but not forever.