By Timmons Roberts and Fred Drews
Photo: Eric Chan.
Timmons Roberts, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discussed the upcoming climate change talks in Paris for a Brookings Institution podcast.
“Scientists are telling us,” Roberts says, “that about 2 degrees Celsius is about the highest limit to stay safe... And in fact right now we’re just under 1 degree Celsius of warming and we’re already seeing these impacts of wildfires, droughts, heat waves, flooding, sea level rise, melting Greenland icesheets and Antarctica being potentially destabilized. There are great risks we’re running at 1 degree. What is it going to be like at 2?”
To listen to the podcast visit this link, subscribe to the Brookings Cafeteria on iTunes, or listen on Stitcher.
Timmons Roberts, nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discussed the upcoming climate change talks in Paris for a Brookings Institution podcast.
“Scientists are telling us,” Roberts says, “that about 2 degrees Celsius is about the highest limit to stay safe... And in fact right now we’re just under 1 degree Celsius of warming and we’re already seeing these impacts of wildfires, droughts, heat waves, flooding, sea level rise, melting Greenland icesheets and Antarctica being potentially destabilized. There are great risks we’re running at 1 degree. What is it going to be like at 2?”
To listen to the podcast visit this link, subscribe to the Brookings Cafeteria on iTunes, or listen on Stitcher.
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