Conclusions include:
1. Global warming in the past 50 years has raised global temperature (Fig. 1) well above the prior
range in the Holocene (the current interglacial period, approximately the past 11,700 years) to the level of the Eemian period (130,000 to 115,000 years ago), when sea level was 6-9 meters (20-30 feet) higher than today.
2. Global warming can be held below 1.5°C (the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement) if rapid
reductions of global CO2 emission (at least 3%/year) begin by 2021 and if there is no net growth of
other climate forcings (Fig. 2). However, 1.5°C global warming exceeds estimated Eemian
temperature and is not an appropriate goal.
3. The growth rate of greenhouse gas climate forcing has accelerated markedly in the past several
years (Fig. 3), a conclusion starkly at odds with the common narrative that the world has recently
turned the corner toward a solution of the global warming problem.
4. An appropriate goal is to return global temperature to the Holocene range with a century. Such
a goal was still achievable in 2013 if rapid emission reductions had begun at that time and if there
were a global program for reforestation and improved agricultural and forestry practices. Now
climate restoration this century would also require substantial technological extraction of CO2 from
the air. If rapid emission reductions do not begin soon, the burden placed on young people to
extract CO2 emitted by prior generations may become implausibly difficult and costly.
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Today’s young people can and should hold their parents’ generation to account for their present actions. They can elicit an emotional response that can motivate action. If thinking about the lives of unborn future generations seems too abstract to motivate you to act, try instead looking a young child or grandchild in the eye and asking yourself what sort of future you are leaving for them. There is something that, on reflection, many adults would surely find repugnant in the idea that they will leave their children a damaged planet that will radically affect their life possibilities. Lord Nicholas Stern
Kiribati President Anote Tong
"…I remember I had been trying to convince him to visit Kiribati and he did in 2011. He came to Kiribati and I remember he went to visit one of these communities that was flooded every time there is very high tides and there was this young boy who stepped up to the Secretary General and said Mr. Secretary General, you are a very important man you know, is there something that you can do to ensure I will have a future, that I will have a home. And the Secretary General came back and he said Mr. President I have been listening to you at the General Assembly but I never truly understood what it was you trying to communicate but now I do and I feel and I understand I would do everything that I can”
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