Special report | Veils and ignorance
Governing the atmosphere
Technologies which might stabilise the climate could do the reverse to international relations
THE ASSESSMENT of the science of climate change released by the IPCC in August looked at various future-emission scenarios. In every one the best estimate for the difference in temperature between the mid-19th and the mid-21st centuries was above 1.5°C. Only two scenarios, both with close to net-zero emissions by mid-century and net-negative ones thereafter, had best estimates lower than 2°C for the final two decades of the century.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “Governing the atmosphere”
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