The Week Ahead: Onward and upward

Two years ago, climate scientists were asked to look at what would happen if we miss the goals set by the Paris climate agreement. It may no longer be a theoretical question.

By Kevin McGwin March 11, 2018
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In January, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN outfit responsible for assessing the science of climate change, issued a statement warning that the world should pay no attention to a leaked version of a report it is in the process of compiling. Their worry: The text, a draft of an assessment of the impacts of a temperature increase of 1.5° C (2.7° F) on pre-industrial levels, might not be pessimistic enough.

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