RCP8.5, baby! Line must go up!
We’re not quite that bad right now; efforts already taken probably dropped it to something more like 3°C of warming by 2100 with further warming thereafter.
not quite that bad
Except several experts have surmised that at 3ºC we will experience civilizational collapse. Stefan Rahmstorf, for example, said recently that “We simply wouldn’t reach three degrees because… we’d be in such deep trouble that basically the economy collapses.”
Thats… Disastrous…
Which efforts, exactly? The Keeling curve shows zero impact, and the other greenhouse gases are worse.
Yeah, I think given current trajectories somewhere between RCP 3.4 and 4.5, with emissions peaking around 2050. Given technological and political headwinds, I just can’t see emissions peaking in 2080 or 2100 with growth rates already slowing globally and peaking in North America and Europe
