Eric Holthaus — With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival

This week, scientists and representatives from every country on Earth are gathering in South Korea to put the finishing touches on a report that, if followed, would change the course of history.

The report is a roadmap for possible ways to keep climate change to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. Anything beyond that amount of warming, and the planet starts to really go haywire. So the International Panel on Climate Change — a U.N.-sponsored, Nobel Peace Prize-winning assemblage of scientists — wants to show how we can avoid that. To be clear, hitting that goal would require a radical rethink in almost every aspect of society. But the report finds that not meeting the goal would upend life as we know it, too....

Damned if you do, and damned if you don't. It's a variation of Hobson's choice.

International Panel on Climate Change is a UN organization, so it's a foregone conclusion that the US won't buy into it under the present leadership.
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With the world on the line, scientists outline the paths to survival

Eric Holthaus