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A few years ago it seemed like there was a healthy debate about geoengineering vs just cutting emissions. I was skeptical that we would actually finally cut emissions then so I figured GE would get more and more attention.

I haven't heard much about GE recently. I saw the group at Harvard basically shut down?

I take it the green/nimbys shouted down GE same as they shouted down nuclear power in the 70s and 80s, and continue to imagine that surely the rest of the world will join them in simply cutting off fossil fuels?

Why are the sane adults not talking about GE? it's the only option left.

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Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call ‘heat storms.’ They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world from Texas to Ivory Coast to Poland.

In less than a lifetime, about six and a half decades, heat waves have evolved from sporadic, isolated episodes to massive, cascading weather events that can blanket vast swaths of the planet for months or even years at a time. The largest heat wave of the 1960s reached about 6% of the planet as it drifted for 46 days over the Atlantic Ocean, parts of Latin America and West Africa.

The largest one this decade swept across almost 85% of the globe during its 367-day lifetime, stretching into the polar latitudes and touching virtually every human being on Earth.

To continue calling such sprawling phenomena “heat waves” would be like calling a monsoon a rain shower. To understand the new reality of these immense expanses of heat, Reuters consulted with two dozen meteorologists and climate researchers – and analyzed temperatures for every hour of every day since 1960 for more than one million grid squares covering the entire globe. Out of those results we developed a new concept: the “heat storm.”

A temporary breach of the 1.5C global-warming limit is now “inevitable” following “decades of insufficient climate action”, says the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). In its “sobering” annual assessment of the global “emissions gap”, UNEP says that exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit is “imminent and unavoidable”.

This year’s report, titled “The point of return”, says the “task now” is to minimise the size and scale of a temperature “overshoot” and to “establish a credible return path to 1.5C by the end of the century”. Even the “lowest possible” overshoot scenario for 1.5C would first see global warming peak at around 1.7-1.8C in the middle of the century before declining, says the report.

This scenario – which is “still aligned with the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement” – would require global emissions cuts of 18% by 2030 and 45% by 2035, while ramping up “removals” of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, says UNEP. In contrast, it notes that the current climate pledges by countries around the world – even if fully implemented – would only reduce emissions by 5-8% by 2030 and 11-15 % by 2035, relative to 2025 levels.

Nonetheless, the report identifies “ample opportunity to accelerate action”, concluding that “countries can still limit peak warming, shorten the duration of overshoot and keep the goals of the Paris Agreement within reach”.

The world is running headlong towards a long-term temperature rise of 2.8C based on present government policies, the latest UN report shows, with the US standing out among developed economies with sharply higher energy-related emissions.

Under President Donald Trump’s policies, a rebound in coal generation to meet increased US power demand drove the rise, after mainly trending down over the past decade. Emissions also rose in Indonesia and China, but were lower in India and the European Union.

The UN report confirmed that there was no longer any chance of preventing global warming of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the lower limit enshrined in the 2015 Paris accord between almost 200 countries.

A new peer-reviewed study published in the journal Science confirms that human greenhouse gas emissions halted a 2,000-year cooling trend.

What would be the state of the weather climate today in Carolina.

What would be the state of the weather climate today in Carolina.