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We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized (www.vox.com)

submitted 6 months ago by remington@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

From the article:

Still, this means that humanity is adding to the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — and doing so at close to its fastest pace ever.

It’s good that this pace is at least not accelerating, but the plateau implies a world that will continue to get warmer. To halt rising temperatures, humans will have to stop emitting greenhouse gases, zeroing their net output, and even start withdrawing the carbon previously emitted.