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Why a half-degree temperature rise is a big deal
2016-07-04 04:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: The Paris Agreement, which delegates from 196 countries hammered out in December 2015, calls for holding the ongoing rise in global average temperature to "well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels," while "pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C." How much difference could that half-degree of wiggle room (or 0.9 degree on the Fahrenheit scale) possibly make in the real world? The European Geosciences Union published a study in April 2016 that examined the impact of a 1.5...
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