Restricting global warming to 2°C could still bring harm
MAR 27, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028745
New Scientist : At the climate talks that took place in Copenhagen in 2009, the world’s leaders agreed to work toward limiting the globally average amount of warming to 2°C with respect to 1990. But in a new paper published in Climate Change Responses, geographer Petra Tschaker of the Pennsylvania State University advocates a target of 1.5°C. Tschaker contends that the lower target will significantly reduce the impact of climate change, especially on poor and vulnerable communities, such as the Sami people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia’s Kola Peninsula.
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