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Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years
A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the goal to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
… irreversible tipping points in the climate system … are closer at hand than scientists previously believed. - Washington Post
TRIPTOE THROUGH THE CLIMATE
The “irreversible tripping point" came
before there were any degrees.
The “irreversible tripping point" was
when we climbed down from the trees.
Before fire. Tools. Neanderthals.
Before we wore clothes to strip tease.
From the perspective of an ailing planet,
bipedal apes are a fatal disease.
