What is a degree and a half?

Have you heard the term one and a half, in connection with the climate crisis and did not understand what is wanted from you? So here is the explanation. The International Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations, includes nearly 300 elected scientists from around the world. They collect the data from the world, read the relevant articles – some also write them and analyze the data coming from around the globe. They have already prepared for a long time, the direction in which the ball is going The country is not positive. They regularly try to wake up the world from its slumber and make it clear that world leaders need to act for change. Every year the international panel usually issues at least one report with its conclusions. The point is that the conclusions do not really change, so in each report they try to put a slightly different emphasis in order to increase awareness and accelerate the world to action. Every year a climate conference is held, each time in a different place in the world.Major leaders from around the world and working groups who try to lead to the actions of the countries also usually come to the climate conferences. That is why the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change usually publishes a report before the climate conference, with the goal that the leaders will pay attention to what is happening and try to act. The first time the degree and a half was mentioned was in 2018. The goal is not to reach a situation where the global average temperature will be a degree and a half higher than the global average from the period before the industrial revolution, around 1850. The reference to one and a half degrees is a kind of warning sign that tells the world that if we pass the one and a half degrees, this will be the point of no return. In which we will no longer be able to moderate the rise in the level of the oceans or prevent the chaos of frequent extreme events. The way is, of course, by moving to a low-carbon economy and drastically changing the consumption of fossil fuels.

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Sharon Wexler