The climate change talks to be held in Paris this December (COP 21 in UN lingo) are all about how much risk to the livability of our planet we’re willing to accept.
And the dirty little secret is, we’re accepting a hell of a lot right now, and we’re imposing even more on our children and future generations.
Here’s why:
- The agreed upon target, 2 degrees C, is dangerously high and the pre-agreements going into Paris assure we won’t even meet that;
- The best case assumptions built into the IPCC’s carbon budgets designed to stay below 2C assume a 34% probability of failure;