How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why
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AUGUST 13, 2021
The essential goal of the Paris agreement of 2015 has been to limit the rise in average global temperatures to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels — a time period centered roughly on the mid-19th century. C increase, extreme hot days in the mid-latitudes will be 3°C hotter (5.4°F) C (an increase of 1.5°C C = about 2.7°F
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