Green line - to have 66% chance of keeping temperature below 1.5C we have to reach net zero in 2030

Blue line - to have 50% chance of keeping temperature below 1.5C we have to reach net zero in 2040

Orange line - to have 66% chance of keeping temperature below 2C we have to reach net zero in 2075

Red line - to have 50% chance of keeping temperature below 2C we have to reach net zero in 2085

Black line - reality

  • gundambigtex [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Do you by chance have the source you pulled this graph from? Would love to read whatever accompanied it

    • micnd90 [he/him,any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Yeah. The particular graph is from this tweet by a climate scientist

      https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1309191503785332736

      But the source is from IPCC SR(Special Report) 15, chapter 2, table 2.2

      https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/SR15_Chapter2_Low_Res.pdf

      He just visualized it by putting linear line towards emission goal on top of historical emission for perspective. Note that in reality, you can somewhat offset the emission with currently nonexistent negative emission technology.