Oh well, so long to those Paris climate conference goals

[marmar]

Temperatures in 2016 Approach Limit Set at Paris Climate Conference

Tuesday, 26 April 2016 00:00
By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report


On April 22 (Earth Day), US Secretary of State John Kerry, with his granddaughter in his lap, signed the international commitment that is supposed to slow the pace of anthropogenic climate disruption.

The commitment, which was the result of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference last fall, was signed by more than 150 countries at the UN. Its aim was to limit global temperature increases to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial baseline levels.

The problem is, three days before Kerry made his symbolic signature, NASA released data showing that the first three months of 2016 are already nearing the lower limit of the Paris talks' threshold, 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial baseline temperatures.

Already Too Late?

By July 2015, the planet, already having been warmed by 1 degree Celsius over preindustrial temperature levels, was already halfway to the politically agreed upon goal of aiming to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius.

The same week world leaders recently gathered at the UN in New York to sign the international climate commitment, Gavin Schmidt, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, announced that the average global temperature for this year will likely range from 1.1 degrees to just below 1.5 degrees Celsius. ...................(more)

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35796-temperatures-in-2016-are-already-near-cop21-limit

[tex-wyo-dem]

1. A day late and a degree short for the the Paris agreement...

It seems agreements and incremental change ain't going to be enough.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. This isn’t helpful

Temperatures have been boosted by El Niño. In a few months, La Niña will take hold, and temperatures will be lower. We have not already exceeded a consistent 1.5°C warming.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/el-ni%C3%B1o-and-la-ni%C3%B1a-alert-system
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/watching-el-niño-and-la-niña-noaa-adapts-global-warming
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/how-el-ni%C3%B1o-and-la-ni%C3%B1a-affect-winter-jet-stream-and-us-climate