Catastrophic warming is inevitable, but the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there’s still time to avoid some worst-case scenarios
A scene from the aftermath of the Dixie Fire, which is already California’s second largest ever. Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images The world is warming at such a rapid rate that even if humanity launches a massive, coordinated effort to dramatically stem carbon emissions — which it has been unable to do up to this point — the Earth will experience considerably wilder and more unpredictable climate effects over the coming decades than have already become the norm.
It’s not all bad news, though. The body finds that given the seriousness with which climate change has finally been treated in recent years, humans could be on track to stave off its worst effects, which would take place at 2 degrees warming and higher.
Humans have warmed the climate at a rate unparalleled since before the fall of the Roman Empire. To find a time when the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere changed this much this fast, you’d need to rewind 66 million years to the meteor that killed the dinosaurs.
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