In Decade Since Paris Agreement, Climate Outlook Has Improved Dramatically

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1. It really. Really. Hasn’t.

   All the targets set in Paris have been missed.

2. This confuses me based on all the other news about climate outlook in the past week

3. Yeah, no it hasn’t.

4. Yet another misleading title, rendered even more infuriating because most of us would naturally trust the source (ie., Yale). The climate outlook has not “improved dramatically.”

   *To save you a click*: The article notes that although the predicted degree of warming hasn’t yet been reached, countries remain far off track from the international target of 2 degrees C. “Still, while countries have likely avoided the most dire climate future, warming is almost certain to surpass 2 degrees C, the target set forth in the Paris Agreement, without much deeper cuts to emissions.”

   They did manage to insert the professional’s opinion at close: “A separate [report](https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627?login=false) from an international team of scientists warns that efforts to stem climate change remain woefully insufficient, and that warming is already pushing the Earth into dangerous new territory. Last year was the hottest on record and likely the hottest in at least 125,000 years. Climate change is fueling dangerous heat, storms, floods, droughts, and fires globally, and warming is only gaining pace. 

   “The accelerating climate crisis is now a major driver of global instability,” scientists write. “Avoiding every fraction of a degree of warming is critically important.” ‘

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5. This headline made me think I was in the Onion sub for a sec.

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