Hundreds of the world’s top climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise at least 2.5C (4.5F) above pre-industrial levels this century, according to a report on a survey by the Guardian, which said they expect “catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet”.
Almost 80% of the 380 respondents to a survey by the paper’s environment editor, all of whom worked on the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half expect at leasts 3C (5.4F), and only 6% thought the world could still achieve the internationally agreed 1.5C limit, the report said.
Many of the experts said they felt “hopeless, infuriated and scared by the failure of governments to act, despite clear scientific evidence that at what was happening, it said, adding that they envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration driven by heatwaves, wildfire, floods and storms of a frequency far beyond those that have already occurred.
But many said the climate fight must continue, because every fraction of a degree avoided would reduce human suffering.
Read the full report: The Guardian.
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