Greta Thunberg addressed a blazer-clad crowd of financiers, bankers, investors, and whomever else was in attendance at the Davos World Economic Forum on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old climate activist didn't stray from her blunt message.
"In chapter two on page 108 in the S.R. 1.5 IPCC Report that came out in 2018, it says that if we are to have a 67 percent chance of limiting the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, we had on January 1st, 2018 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit in that budget," she said.
Thunberg is telling the grown-ups that, unless radical and immediate action is taken to curb civilization's carbon emissions, the planet will (sometime around 2035) warm by over 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above temperatures in the late 1800s. And according to the landmark U.N. report referenced by Thunberg, this means humanity would experience bad and ever-worsening consequences of a warming planet. How bad? Well, we've seen what just over 1 degree C of warming can do to Australia. Read more...
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