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Pro: 1.5 Degrees Warming Is Dangerous From The Climate Reality Project: GLOBAL WARMING IS ABOUT AVERAGE TEMPERATURES When we talk about 1.5 degrees of warming, we’re talking about the increase in the Earth’s average temperature. We measure this increase from a baseline average temperature in the mid-to-late nineteenth century – when the Industrial Revolution swung into high
Pro: Land temperature records clearly demonstrate the influence of humans on warming the climate climate from preindustrial times From NASA Earth Observatory The world is getting warmer. Thermometer readings around the world have been rising since the Industrial Revolution, and the causes are a blend of human activity and some natural variability—with the preponderance of evidence saying
The sheer number of climate records made in 2023 presents a harrowing warning of the destructiveness of climate change
Pro: The Warming Isn’t Evenly Dispersed Global warming reaching 1.5 degrees doesn’t mean that average temperatures in some places won’t rise significantly beyond that number. Again – it’s just the global average. Then there’s the fact that as average temperatures rise, spikes and heatwaves will go much, much higher than just 1.5 degrees. As the
Global temperatures soared above this critical benchmark, a situation not seen since before the widespread use of fossil fuels.