Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦 on Nostr: npub1khx67…hgeyg The recent report about what the global temps were when the West ...
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The recent report about what the global temps were when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) collapsed about 130,000 years ago is scary. “Global average temperatures were only about 1°C warmer” than today.
Science has published the “first empirical evidence that the tipping point of this ice sheet could be reached even under the Paris Agreement targets of limiting warming to 1.5 – 2°C.”
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/octopus-dna-solves-mystery-of-ice-sheets-past/
The recent report about what the global temps were when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) collapsed about 130,000 years ago is scary. “Global average temperatures were only about 1°C warmer” than today.
Science has published the “first empirical evidence that the tipping point of this ice sheet could be reached even under the Paris Agreement targets of limiting warming to 1.5 – 2°C.”
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/octopus-dna-solves-mystery-of-ice-sheets-past/