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Climate change: 'Fifty-fifty chance' of breaching 1.5C warming limit
BBC News ^ | May 10, 2022 | By Matt McGrath

Posted on 05/10/2022 6:23:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The likelihood of crossing a key global warming threshold has risen significantly, according to a new analysis.

UK Met Office researchers say that there's now around a fifty-fifty chance that the world will warm by more than 1.5C over the next five years.

The Met Office researchers predict that for any one year in the period, the likelihood of breaching the 1.5C level is around 48%, or close to 50:50.

“The basic thing that's changing is that the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, are slowly creeping up," said Dr Leon Hermanson from the Met Office, the lead author of the report.

"I think people are already quite concerned about climate change and it is worrying, it is showing that we continue to warm the planet and we're getting closer to this first threshold that was set in the Paris agreement - and we need to continue doing everything we can to cut the use of fossil fuels."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah...that was my reaction too. When did this narrative change?

That said, the good news is - now we can measure them against the next 5 years...so when temps haven’t done anything alarming we can declare all of them to be nothing but hysterical and ignore everything else they say.


41 posted on 05/10/2022 7:32:44 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Plants use the co2. More c02, more plant growth. These experts (not) couldn’t change temperature if they tried - maybe their hot headed idiotic ideas they could.


42 posted on 05/10/2022 7:47:30 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Warming oceans are releasing their captured CO2. There is nothing we can do to stop the ocean warming until the inevitable change that launches a new glacial period. If warming is bad, what will we do to stop North America from being covered again with 2 miles thick ice?


43 posted on 05/10/2022 8:02:23 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"I think people are already quite concerned about climate change

There's a sucker born every minute.

awe're getting closer to this first threshold that was set in the Paris agreement

That was based on nothing.

And we need to continue doing everything we can to cut the use of fossil fuels

At what cost and to what end?

44 posted on 05/10/2022 8:05:09 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The natural state of the universe is very (very) cold … in many ways we should celebrate the warmth.


45 posted on 05/10/2022 8:05:49 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
UK Met Office researchers say that there's now around a fifty-fifty chance that the world will warm by more than 1.5C over the next five years

I'll bet a nickel against St. Edward's Crown that it won't. I'll even make it a 1942-S war nickel. Check with the Palace. Do we have a deal?

46 posted on 05/10/2022 8:07:54 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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To: Coffee... Black... No Sugar

Or very very very very hot. :)


47 posted on 05/10/2022 8:15:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Your bat-excrement crazy mental illness does not impose an obligation upon me to deny reality.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

50-50 is when you are totally incapable of predicting squat. Their models are total garbage. Every dam** one of them is tweaked after assembly in order to match what they want. That => crap modelling skills.
What they claim is beyond the science of today. To insist on changes on that basis is lunacy.


48 posted on 05/10/2022 8:18:31 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Noooooooooo!!!!!!


49 posted on 05/10/2022 8:19:52 AM PDT by Fury
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Might or might not.
Can’t be anymore specific than a coin toss!


50 posted on 05/10/2022 9:28:12 AM PDT by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Zappa Fifty-fifty
51 posted on 05/10/2022 9:31:54 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: butlerweave

Good.

The fundamentals for plant growth are: Soil, Water and Air.

Cold temperatures result in low precipitation and arid conditions, so we need more heat and higher temperatures.

Unlike animals plants need CO2 to breath, and we are currently near the threshold for a collapse in agricultural yield due to low CO2, leading to famine. We need more CO2.

So the ‘green’ nutcases of the world are actually destroying the earth and bringing in famine. How do you fight self destructive mass psychoses?


52 posted on 05/10/2022 10:11:49 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worrying about something that does not exist can kill you or make you going Insane , oops too late for some ,LOL


53 posted on 05/10/2022 11:11:40 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

CO2 makes up .03% of the atmosphere. Plants will be happier if it increases amd so will we since plants crate O2 via photosynthesis… Earth Science 101.


54 posted on 05/10/2022 11:27:44 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Send us a bunch more $$$ and the guessed at odds will increase to about 50/50%. Such a deal!


55 posted on 05/10/2022 11:37:51 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: red-dawg

Yup, we still have glaciers and cold temperatures in 2022 despite the propaganda the lying liars have been force feedings us.

Climate change and Covid are the biggest scams ever perpetrated against humanity.


56 posted on 05/10/2022 11:57:32 AM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftists are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Acknowledged!

Mom always wanted me to look for the “happy medium“.


57 posted on 05/23/2022 8:15:23 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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