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Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I usually like TheGuardian but doomer clickbait like this isn't helping at all. Yeah it's looking grim right now, so let's focus on solutions and change that's already happening, instead of disencouraging people who care. People who don't will not after reading this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

What's clickbait about it? The guy is as renowned in his field as it suggests, and he did say exactly that.

There's no line at which our failure means we should give up. 4C is better than 5C, 5C is better than 6C and so on