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Andrew Dessler

To be clear, I've never thought that 1.5C was an achievable target. My view is that it's a stretch goal to motivate us.

"There's virtually no hope" for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, said Andrew Desser, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University. "Certainly if there was a smidgeon of hope, yesterday afternoon that was gone."
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Andrew Dessler

But I think we can still achieve 2C. The rest of the world (e.g., China) is moving on from fossil fuels as fast as they can.

This is what gives me hope.

Renewable energy will also likely continue to replace more expensive coal power, as it did during the first Trump administration. "At some point the US will realize that fossil fuels are just not competitive," Desser said. "Staying on fossil fuels is not the way to run a competitive economy. It just costs too much."
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Albert Cardona

@andrewdessler The geopolitical incentive is strong: independence from oil and gas producers. The economic one as well: solar and wind are far cheaper than oil. Together, these forces can defeat future attempts at increasing oil production. Demand for oil is still raising ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuel but this seems poised to change rather fast.

Our World in DataFossil fuelsFossil fuels were key to industrialization and rising prosperity, but their impact on health and the climate means that we should transition away from them.
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Kevin Leecaster

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China has done such a good PR job of fooling people into thinking that they are taking climate action. I'm impressed.

I'll be convinced they're decarbonizing only after they stop building new coal plants and importing more and more of it all the time.

Hopefully, they'll start reducing their greenhouse gas emissions soon.

Electricity generation from coal for the world and just China from 2015 to present
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Hans Bot – 🙃

@andrewdessler The problem being that net emissions have to go down to zero to stop warming at 2 degrees. Currently, there’s no net zero in sight.

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