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Doe posted...

Not saying it's not bad but here's an article arguing we're not strictly doomed and it was understood we'd pass this threshold by most scientists because the 2015 1.5c goal set in Paris was aspirational. If you don't have a good browser extension it might have a pay wall but there aren't many other articles about this when I googled.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/05/science/planet-passes-15-degrees-of-warming

You guys are dooming really hard so I'm gonna quote some of the article for accessibility

There is something undeniable about this moment, although Harvard climate scientist Daniel Schrag saidthat doesnt mean the planet has passed a point of no return where its too late.

The reality: 1.5 C is bad, 2 C is worse, 2.5 C is much worse, and so on, he said. It always can get worse. And therefore, theres no point where you throw up your hands and you say, Oh, we failed, were done.

Many climate scientists have also long been clear-eyed that hitting 1.5 degrees of warming was inevitable. I could tell 20 years ago that we were going to pass this threshold, said Schrag, co-director of Harvards Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program.

What the goal signaled, more than anything, was an aspiration, a target that, though likely unachievable, provided a benchmark for global ambition. A 2016 report from the United Nations said it was set not as a scientific question of feasibility, but rather as a moral imperative of necessity.