You might be hearing the term 1.5 C in a lot of climate change news. But what’s behind the number?
In 2015, world leaders decided that they wanted to prevent global temperatures from rising 1.5 C higher than what average temperatures were from 1850 to 1990. With the help of her drawings, KN contributor Aubrie Chan explains why they chose 1.5 C as a benchmark.
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Expert Interview:
Dr. Francis Zwiers
Director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria
Other sources include:
CBC News
United Nations
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NASA
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BBC
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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16 апр 2024
