Shell admits 1.5C climate goal means immediate end to fossil fuel growth
Growth in oil and gas production ends immediately in Shell’s latest pathway for staying below 1.5C, new Carbon Brief analysis reveals.
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Our Research Shows That Big Oil’s Plans for Combating Climate Crisis Are Bunk
Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows.
Model-based net-zero scenarios, including those of the IPCC, aren’t worth the paper they are written on, say leading economists
World-leading economists have blown a hole right through the middle of the main tool used to produce the net-zero scenarios embraced by climate policymakers.
Scientists issue ‘dire warning’ on climate
People and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit by climate change, said scientists in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released today.
New research on forests and oceans suggest projections of future warming may be too conservative, with serious consequences
How much will the world warm with ongoing fossil-fuel carbon emissions? It’s a big question that preoccupies policymakers and activists, with important discussions about when the world will hit two degrees, are we really on a path to four degrees of warming with current Paris commitments, and so on.
In Tackling the Global Climate Crisis, Doom and Optimism are Both Dangerous Traps
The popular discourse around the climate emergency all too often highlights fringe voices that predict the end of the world or suggest that there is little to worry about. But as the climatologist Steven Schneider presciently remarked a decade ago, when it comes to the climate “the end of the world” and “good for us” are probably the two least likely outcomes.
Why Low-End ‘Climate Sensitivity’ can Now be Ruled Out
After four years of labour and detailed discussions by an international team of scientists, we are able to quantify better than ever before how the world’s surface temperature responds to increasing CO2 levels.
Scenario Planning for Climate Change: Review
Climate change is not about short-term changes in the weather but long-term systemic environmental shifts in response to warming temperatures. Scenario planning is about the efforts of an organization to stay relevant in relation to a host of external factors beyond climate including the enactment of government policies and shifts in population.
Explainer: The High-Emissions ‘RCP8.5’ Global Warming Scenario
In this article, Carbon Brief examines how the emissions scenario underlying RCP8.5 was developed and how it has subsequently been used in the academic literature and media.
This is What America will Look Like if We Follow Trump’s Climate Policies
The United States faces a choice between manageable warming and unmanageable catastrophe, according to a leaked draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies. The report’s “higher emissions” scenario projects a devastating 8°F to 10°F warming over the interior of this country–and, unimaginably, upwards of 18°F over in the Arctic!–by 2071 to 2100. In that case, global sea levels could rise as much as 8 feet, inundating every major coastal city in this country and around the world.
Delusions of Grandeur in Building a Low-Carbon Future
There is a very real trade-off between the rate at which we address climate change and the amount of economic growth we can expect during the transition to a low-carbon economy, but most economic models insufficiently address this trade-off, and thus are incapable of assessing the transition.
We aren’t Doomed by Climate Change. Right Now we are Choosing to be Doomed.
New York Magazine has stirred up a firestorm of debate by publishing a worst-case scenario for climate change this week, “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells.