Why Is the World Ignoring the Latest U.N. Climate Report?
Source: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/un-climate-report.html
Author: David Wallace Wells
In late 2018, the United Nations published its landmark IPCC study "Global Warming of 1.5°C."Sometimes called the "Doomsday" report, it outlined the dramatic outcomes - 150 million additional deaths from air pollution, once-a-century floods hitting every year - if the world became just half a degree warmer than the Paris Agreement's stated goal of limiting warming to one and a half degrees above the preindustrial average. Along with astonishing declines in the price of renewable energy, that alarmism helped produce an unprecedented wave of national "net zero" commitments; a growing rhetorical dedication by the world’s most powerful to the principle, at least, of “climate justice”