{"id":32002,"date":"2022-11-25T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=32002"},"modified":"2022-11-27T05:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T05:41:56","slug":"after-cop27-all-signs-point-to-world-blowing-past-the-1-5-degrees-global-warming-limit-heres-what-we-can-still-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/after-cop27-all-signs-point-to-world-blowing-past-the-1-5-degrees-global-warming-limit-heres-what-we-can-still-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"After COP27, all signs point to world blowing past the 1.5 degrees global warming limit \u2013 here\u2019s what we can still do about\u00a0it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Peter Schlosser<\/a>, Arizona State University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius<\/a>, a level many scientists consider a dangerous threshold<\/a>. Realistically, that\u2019s unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the problem was evident at COP27<\/a>, the United Nations climate conference in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While nations\u2019 climate negotiators were successfully fighting to \u201ckeep 1.5 alive\u201d as the global goal in the official agreement<\/a>, reached Nov. 20, 2022, some of their countries were negotiating new fossil fuel deals<\/a>, driven in part by the global energy crisis. Any expansion of fossil fuels \u2013 the primary driver of climate change \u2013 makes keeping warming under 1.5 C (2.7 Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial times much harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attempts at the climate talks to get all countries to agree to phase out coal, oil, natural gas and all fossil fuel subsidies failed. And countries have done little to strengthen their commitments<\/a> to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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