{"id":6490,"date":"2015-11-11T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T08:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T08:10:04","slug":"only-2-7-degrees-no-need-to-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/11\/11\/only-2-7-degrees-no-need-to-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Only +2.7 degrees? No need to worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the late night news programmes on both main TV channels had features about COP21. \u00a0These both drew heavily on\u00a0what\u00a0Christiana Figueres, the UN climate chief, has been\u00a0saying.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that 155 countries have already put forward\u00a0detailed plans\u00a0covering 88% of global CO2 emissions, and others are expected to join before the deadline expires, Figueres, was also quoted in the Telegraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is unstoppable. \u00a0No amount of lobbying at this point is going to change the direction.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Figueres said that, whilst such national pledges are not enough to limit\u00a0the global temperature rise to 2\u00a0degrees above pre-industrial levels (by 2100),\u00a0the Paris accord does promise to \"bend the\u00a0trajectory\" to a 2.7 degree increase. \u00a0\u201cWe think most countries will be able to over-achieve,\u201d she said, and Paris will be followed by a series of deals that brings the ultimate target within sight.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/energy\/11958713\/Fossil-fuel-companies-risk-plague-of-asbestos-lawsuits-as-tide-turns-on-climate-change.html\">Telegraph<\/a> has this baffling graph that shows all the optimism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/10\/Cop21_pledges_agai_3484769a1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6492\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/10\/Cop21_pledges_agai_3484769a1-300x199.png\" alt=\"Cop21_pledges_agai_3484769a\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/10\/Cop21_pledges_agai_3484769a1-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2015\/10\/Cop21_pledges_agai_3484769a1.png 588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, there we have it: COP21 is already a success, and no one has even got to Paris yet.<\/p>\n<p>My worry is not about the COP (as I knew it was going to be successful because it just <em>had<\/em> to be, and people who should know better are already talking about it in those terms), but about what people learned from watching the TV news. \u00a0My guess is that those who were paying attention learned that there was no longer any need to worry \u2013 or pay further attention.<\/p>\n<p>Dear me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the late night news programmes on both main TV channels had features about COP21. \u00a0These both drew heavily on\u00a0what\u00a0Christiana Figueres, the UN climate chief, has been\u00a0saying. Noting that 155 countries have already put forward\u00a0detailed plans\u00a0covering 88% of global CO2...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}