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Re:Climate Change Tracker by lucb1e on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:51PM (#37374434)
Ah, unrealistic because it's a plain extrapolation without accounting for any behavior change or indeed feedback effects. That makes sense, thanks!

> It is not unreasonable to assume that governments will follow through with at least some of their promises and pledges

FWIW, it actually looks like we're on a path to 2.5-2.9 °C of warming with current policies, and nearly another 1°C reduction with current pledges which are indeed much less likely to fully materialise. Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change#/media/File:Gre... which appears to use 2021 data. The "no climate policies" scenario is shown as having the lower error margin actually above +4°C

Re:Climate Change Tracker by runarberg on Sunday September 03, 2023 @06:28PM (#37375210)
> FWIW, it actually looks like we're on a path to 2.5-2.9 °C of warming with current policies.

This is true, I actually used 2° C as a shorthand for 2° C - 3° C. I shouldn’t have done that. I actually believe we are more likely to be closer to 3° C at the end of this century than 2° C.