IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5 °C above Pre-industrial Levels

The web page for the 'IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty' is here.

On this page, you will find many links such as:

• Press release
• FAQs
• Summary for policy makers, etc.

Short version is this:

 

Basically, even if we make drastic changes, we'll still be over 1.5 degrees in the near future. We need to stop questioning these findings and start working harder.

Have you seen these articles on global warming?

As you may be well aware of,  'global warming' is making the news more and more frequently. Here is a sample of what we have seen in 2016:

• Washington Post, Jan 2016: 2015 was way worse than 2014. The change/delta/increase in metrics was big, year over year.

• Slate, March 2016: NASA confirms that February 2016 was not only the most unusually warm month ever measured globally, at 1.35 degrees Celsius above the long-term average—it was more than 0.2 degrees Celsius warmer than the previously most unusually warm month ever measured: January 2016.  [Let this one sink in for a minute, will you?]

• National Geographic, June 2016: First Mammal Species Goes Extinct Due to Climate Change

• Independent, Oct 2016:Global warming doubles size of forest fires in US West, NASA [again!] study finds.
  
  
• xkcd: A timeline of earth's average temperature... for a perspective.

 

 

If you think there are other good articles [more data, the better] on this topic, please add them in the comments section.