There’s a huge gap between the Paris climate change goals and reality
- By David Roberts
- Oct 31, 2017
- 1 min read
In 2015 in Paris, the countries of the world agreed to hold the rise in global average temperatures to “well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.”
How’s that going?
The unavoidably grim answer: not well, and not just because President Donald Trump has promised to pull the United States out of the accord.
photo credit: The Library of Congress
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