Essay by Eric Worrall
According to a new paper, we have a 50% chance of “committing” to 1.5C global warming by 2025, rising to 66% by 2029. But the authors have left a nice big escape hatch, perhaps in case that pesky pause lengthens.
“Limited time:” World will lock in 1.5°C warming by 2025 without big emissions cuts
Michael Mazengarb 7 June 2022
The world faces a greater than 50 per cent chance of locking in global warming of more than 1.5°C unless greenhouse gas emissions can be dramatically reduced before 2025, new research suggests.
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, warn that the world needs an ‘abrupt cessation’ of greenhouse gas emissions to prevent locking in global warming above safe levels.
The research also confirm that net zero targets by 2050 are insufficient to cap average global warming below 2°C, and that does not include like feedback loops that will accelerate temperature rises.
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“Assuming a medium-emissions trajectory, we find that we are already committed to peak warming greater than 1.5°C with 42 per cent probability, increasing to 66 per cent by 2029. Probability of peak warming greater than 2.0°C is currently 2 per cent, increasing to 66 per cent by 2057,” the paper says.
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Read more: https://reneweconomy.com.au/without-big-emissions-cuts-warming-of-1-5-degrees-to-be-locked-in-before-2024/
The abstract of the paper;
Estimating the timing of geophysical commitment to 1.5 and 2.0 °C of global warming
M. T. Dvorak, K. C. Armour, D. M. W. Frierson, C. Proistosescu, M. B. Baker & C. J. Smith
Following abrupt cessation of anthropogenic emissions, decreases in short-lived aerosols would lead to a warming peak within a decade, followed by slow cooling as GHG concentrations decline. This implies a geophysical commitment to temporarily crossing warming levels before reaching them. Here we use an emissions-based climate model (FaIR) to estimate temperature change following cessation of emissions in 2021 and in every year thereafter until 2080 following eight Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). Assuming a medium-emissions trajectory (SSP2–4.5), we find that we are already committed to peak warming greater than 1.5 °C with 42% probability, increasing to 66% by 2029 (340 GtCO2relative to 2021). Probability of peak warming greater than 2.0 °C is currently 2%, increasing to 66% by 2057 (1,550 GtCO2 relative to 2021). Because climate will cool from peak warming as GHG concentrations decline, committed warming of 1.5 °C in 2100 will not occur with at least 66% probability until 2055.
Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01372-y
The paper is paywalled, which I find a little hilarious – charging for information about the imminent end of the world.
What I find most intriguing though is the vagueness of the prediction. We’re “committed” to 1.5C, but when we will actually experience this warming seems really vague – maybe by 2055, but we might have to wait until 2100.
Don’t forget folks, the science is “settled”.
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Whoever believes this crap should be committed and I’m not referring to temperature.
But…but…but… weren’t you watching the weekend telecast when Attenborough, Charles, and William clearly spoke about this stuff. Complete with the image of a windmill adorning the front of Buck House? Wash your mouth out, before you salute!
The whole Jubilee thing was ruined by Attenborough and the Princes. I become a republican when Elizabeth passes away.
I am somehow managing to listen to Attenborough narrate The Prehistoric Planet series on Apple TV+, mainly because I’m enjoying the animation and the interpretation of how the dinosaurs lived.
What is confounding, however, is the narration by Sir Richard contradicts everything he says regarding AGW. He literally talks about how teeming with life the planet was when it was ice free, warmer and with higher atmospheric CO2. He never mentions this directly (the CO2 part) but does talk about the climate.
Hypocrite personified.
…I’m enjoying the animation and the interpretation of how the dinosaurs lived.
What is confounding, however, is the narration by Sir Richard contradicts…
I think you are getting mixed up with Jurassic Park.
People will spend thousands to fly somewhere it’s 30+C all year round, to avoid a place that is -20 to 30 over the year, then come home, piss themselves about climate emergency causing 2°C of warming and do other irrational things like voting Liberal or NDP (socialist for those lucky enough not to know what that is).
Seems to me I was just reading about record-breaking cold and snow south of the equator in South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Apparently only what is happening in half of the world is worthy of discussion.
It’s starting out cool in the other half of the world, too.
These people predicting climate disaster are going to look awfully foolish if the temperatures cool instead of warm.
No, they will claim credit for their victory and find a new catastrophe to “fight”:
Like they did with acid rain and the ozone hole.
The climate fraudsters have a simple solution to that. They cool the past to show warming in the present. Great parlor trick.
Every time there’s a heat wave, anywhere in the world, it’s proof that CO2 is going to kill us all.
If it’s a cold spell, or even just disgustingly normal, that is ignored.
I’m disappointed. I’m a firm believer in global warming because the alternative is scary. I’ve been rooting for around 2.5C of global warming.
*sigh* Sadly, I think we’ll miss my target.
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P.S. It is beyond my ken why there would be any Canadian trying to prevent global warming. Yet there are not just a few, but a whole passel of them. Are they nuts?!?
Some Canadians are literally mentally retarded, starting the PM and all his voters.
No I didn’t vote him
And they all believe they are the spitters, Pat.
The crazy ones don’t realize they are crazy.
I know, right?!
If we could trust these promises of a measly 1.5, 2 or even 3°C, we should be running everything on coal or burning the oilsands directly!
makes me wonder why they come to Florida every year.
“The vagueness” is precisely what all this is about. And it precisely “the vagueness” we must home in on in our criticism of climate change alarmism. The door-stop sized, main IPCC report is not actually vague – here we see scientific, climate-change theories clearly exposed. But the IPCC summary is a statement hammered out in smoke-filled back rooms by politically appointed representatives from all the world’s governments – and that is what the news media run with. It is here we meet with the vague, alarmist interpretations of the main scientific report.
We need to subject the IPCC summary to objective, scientific peer-review. Why should that sort of scientific nonsense remain unchallenged??
Models are vague – not so empircal measurements. Of course it is much easier to frighten a child with stories of what he cannot see in the dark but these fears are quickly dispelled by the light.
Empirical measurements may be precise, but how you use those measurements can add a lot of imprecision.
For example using a few thousand station to cover parts of N. America and Europe, and then declare that you know within 0.01C what the temperature of the entire earth is, is ludicrous. But they get away with such claims all the time.
The problem is not with the measurements but rather lack of more measurements covering far more areas and then how you use these. I have not seen but would like to see measurements from each climatic zone compared with those of previous years and how changes in one zone compare to the neighboring zones. The complexity of weather and climate is huge and I think we have a long way to go for a clearer understanding.
Well, the IPCC report isn’t about making any consensus. There are plenty of non alarmist papers which are merely ignored because they don’t fit the doomsday predictions. Plenty of evidence of that in the climategate emails. Yet they weren’t held accountable for it so why anything would have changed?
I don’t like the sound of this: “….following eight Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).”
.Probably 2 SSPs for each of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
There’s a hole in the bucket. If you go back to absolute basics, it is those that screech the loudest-like Chicken Little that the sky is falling that are the same ones that “measure” and report the temperatures. They can announce whatever they like to fit the narrative and fit the agenda. Funny how lots of money may or may not soothe their reporting. Very funny. Throw more money and they will demand more money. One day you will find yourself totally impoverished. The conflict of intrerest cannot be ignored.
Going back to basics, how can it be assumed that any reported temperature rise was from human CO2 in the first place? Where is the evidence? Just screeching about it does not make it true. Without solid evidence, it is just smoke and mirrors with lots of screeching, coercion, bullying, semantic manipulation and other dubious tactics.
Those that still believe the massive hoax/ scam that the 3% of atmospheric CO2 increase is the driving force-the thermostat for catastrophic global warming/ “climate change”(whatever that means without qualification) need to start questioning some aspects of the argument. Does it make sense that an essential trace element at just 420ppm is what drives the climate for the entire planet? Does it make sense that those that stand to prosper very handsomely refuse to present any evidence and refuse to debate the issue? Does it make sense to even declare any science to be settled and beyond debate, especially when it is a new science? Just what role does the 97% of CO2 increase that is natural have on the climate?
Once ONE part of an issue is revealed to be flawed or wrong, how many other aspects are also wrong? Typically, it is just the tip of the iceberg.
Question the narrative. The ability to question makes us human. Seeking the answers for yourself makes you free. At the moment, certain forces inhibit questioning, which means we are not free.
“safe levels”.
Seriously? The world will be unsafe to live in if it happens to warm by 2’C?
My BS meter is pegging its needle right past the ‘steaming pile’ mark.
And what’s this?
“that does not include like feedback loops”
Did a teenage girl write this?
Having grown up in an area with mid summer temperatures often reaching 40°C and higher – with no air conditioning – how on earth did we survive and thrive? Actually many areas of the world would welcome an average increase of 2 or 3, perhaps 4 or 5°C with increased plant growth and maybe even higher rainfall.
Eric, a good synopsis as always.
My main problem with the 1.5°C narrative is that there was only weather station reporting in the Southern Hemisphere in 1850 and it was in Indonesia.
Yes, Australia had several stations at that time, but the BOM excludes everything before 1910.
How can any real scientist talk about a global 1.5°C temperature rise from preindustrial when their whole premise is based on one station in Indonesia being used to measure global temperature..
Even today, it’s only marginally better. There might be 100 stations covering the entire southern hemisphere. Only a climate scientist could convince themselves that 100 stations is within 2 orders of magnitude of being enough.
Even in the northern hemisphere there’s only a 1000 or so stations, Mostly east and west coast of the US, southern Canada and central Europe. The rest of the land surface is more or less unmeasured and the oceans mostly unmeasured.
“The research also confirm that net zero targets by 2050…”
Confirm? Really? They have a time machine or invented precision chaos climate physics?
Considering the wide, off-the-mark climate model hind casting and forecasting, I don’t know WHERE they could be possibly getting these numbers – possibly Uranus?
Paywalled climate propaganda – suitable for generating a click-bait climate doomsday headlines but the research is conveniently out of easy reach for proper verification.
The top picture of a Corona beer on the beach reminds me of a day away from work.
{Call into work} “Boss, I cannot come in today, I have a case of Corona.”
Boss: OK, stay safe and get well.
?????????
That joke was going around, and the boss either bought it, or pretended to.
Corona was famously the beer Mikey Mann handed out at his early ‘the sky is falling’ lectures. Be careful, there must be a danger that it rots the brain.
JF
I had no idea. Explains all those nightmares about hockey sticks I was having.
The first thing to do with such articles is search for the word ‘model’. When (inevitably) it turns up I turn off and don’t read further.
So you don’t read any of them then? 🙂
This delusion is the real pandemic.
unless greenhouse gas emissions can be dramatically reduced before 2025
Ain’t gonna happen. Now what? Keep building windmills anyway?
Yep keep building. That’s what they are doing because they (governments) are believers.
Ultimately, I blame scientists for this state of affairs. Almost (but not quite) all of them.
“Ain’t gonna happen. Now what? Keep building windmills anyway?”
The only thing they can do is double down on stupid. Th alternative is to admit they were wrong about unreliables being capable of powering the grid, and they are not going to do that.
“Ain’t gonna happen. Now what? Keep building windmills anyway?”
And dykes….
Poor gormless chicken-little Simon is scared by 2mm/year sea level rise.
Poor sad ignorant b.nice has no concept of the implications of 3mm and increasing sea level rise. “Mr selfish” would be a better name. I’m assuming you are a sad old man you wont have to worry about it, so why would you care right?
It’s not even ‘science’ as we know it: “the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained” (Oxford), it is the modern equivalent of haruspicy.
Nice, I will put the coals on the barbie!
What is completely ludicrous is thinking we can engineer the climates (notice not climate but climates) of the thirty climate zones and sub-zones of the world with the mind-boggling complexity of how they interact upon one another. With some 0.5% of the total land area of the world covered in cities – some 0.15% of the total surface – with the urban heat island effect reducing this would have an insignificant effect.
“The largest Climate-Crank alarmist outfit in Oz is the CSIRO, with all their shrieking that climate change will soon destroy us, and there will shortly be no snow in the Oz Alps. They get hundreds of millions per year to constantly claim this, and yet….
The CSIRO has it’s very own expensive Ski Club in those same Oz Alps.. One large chalet complex in Jindabyne and another in Perisher. Every share in it is held very tightly and is very valuable should one come onto the market. The lodges are booked solid
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At the annual AGM, the ski club is bound by law to report the truth about it’s activities and it’s prospects. It said the following at last year’s AGM in October…. And our members did not disappoint us – solidly booking both lodges from
June through to September….
The report also had the following to say : “The company expects to maintain the current status and level of operations, and there are no likely (detrimental) developments in operations in future years”
OK, so the lying CSIRO hounds out spreading the BS with a trowel, do not expect any change in ski condition AT ALL. The snow will still be there, and none of the members have disputed this finding at an AGM, since there might be fines and even gaol-time if they continued with the ACC lie in a company report.
No more discussion is needed. the CSIRO has admitted reality. The Ski resorts know it too. End of story, FFS!”
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/tuesday-open-thread-107/#comment-2555336
As we don’t know what the temperature was in 1850 the whole exercise is beyond words fatuous.
Well can they please hurry up and get that 1.5 deg. C to show itself here, because we have had to light the wood burner for the past three nights here in blazing June central England.???
Just WTF was the preindustrial global average temperature and what year does that represent? This is all unfalsifiable religious nonsense.
The idea that immediate cessation in emissions would stop warming is fantastical. I don’t know how any PhD could believe this, let alone think a model can tell them what they’re claiming.
Correct me if I’m wrong. At the failed Copenhagen COP an economist suggested we keep below 2.0degsC. Three would have been too easy. One was too difficult because we were already there? Then it was seen that the globe was going to keep under 2 anyway so target was tightened to 1.5 at the failed Katowice COP. Do read the much reviled drivelling nonsense of the IPCC’s SR1.5. I have, and am now recovering from brain damage.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
All of the Nature periodical publications are paywalled but editorials or summaries are sometimes provided. I have found that Nature Climate Change does not critically review the papers published in the journal and are strongly biased towards climate emergency messaging. But that is also true for most other climate related publications as well as the UNFCCC story line messaging.
But I believe it is also true that the climate chicken little emergency messaging also correlates with risk of serious life-threatening coronary artery attacks leading to death.
Ah, I thought that was the jabs!
““Assuming a medium-emissions trajectory, we find that we are already committed to peak warming greater than 1.5°C with 42 per cent probability, increasing to 66 per cent by 2029…”
Any emissions trajectory will still have no effect on the solar-driven climate.
I commented on J.Curry’s site earlier this year that we can expect to reach the dreaded 1.5°C due to the warming effect of this solar cycle maximum, a prediction based on my 2018 AGU Fig. 14 (bottom panel). SC25 actually started six months later than I depicted in Fig. 14, so my prediction range for the upcoming solar warming period is now 2022-2028, +/- one year, the earliest chance of exceeding 1.5°C with another solar-driven El Nino spike such as in 2016.
Warming? Where is it? I want some of it in my neck of the woods. Seems like this a rather cool late spring this year here in SW MO.
Won’t even get into the wishy washy predictions which have been made since day one of climate change, globull warming, etc. Its all hogwash and furnishes paychecks for academics and other grifters who convince the gubmint to part with taxpayer funds to enrich them.
Its all a scam. Just meant to separate the rubes from their money and their freedoms.
Just sayin’.
Around here, this spring has been a little above average.
Last year spring was brutally cold.
At this rate, in 3 or 4 years, steel will melt if left in direct sunlight.
“Warming? Where is it?”
Being in SW Missouri, you will probably see some local warming in the near future as a high pressure system is building over the southwest U.S. and is moving east. CO2 has nothing to do with it, as far as anyone can tell.
When it does warm up to record-breaking level in the coming days, expect the climate alarmists to claim the cause of the warming is CO2. No, it’s just that high-pressure system sitting on top of us. When that happens, it gets warm. Nobody has made a connection between CO2 and how a high-pressure system configures itself at any particular time.
They are trying to prevent a totally imaginary flood by telling people not to spit.
Well, whatever the truth of any of this (I know, I know, but I’m a generous soul), the one thing we know for 100% copper-bottomed certain is that there will be no emission cuts by 2025, 2029, ….. At least on a global scale!
Absolutely correct. CO2 levels will continue to increase while the alarmists continue to tell us we need to cut back. The alarmists are talking and nobody that counts is listening.
CO2 levels *will* increase in the future. The question is: Will temperatures follow?
At the present time, CO2 levels are increasing, but the temperatures are not increasing.
Time will tell. Time is the only thing that will settle this argument. The vested interests are too strong, otherwise.
They have yet to demonstrate that 1.5C would be problem.
They also have yet to demonstrate that CO2 is responsible for any of the warming since 1850 or so.
What if it doesn’t happen, what then?
Let us not be hasty and commit to 1.5C right off. Perhaps move in together for a while, and see how it goes.
Models.
Meh…
The latest alarm in Aussie news.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/la-nia-could-become-the-norm-for-australia-if-an-atlantic-ocean-current-collapses/news-story/b0ac227514dfdb178bc49b2f0c5e1976
How do you commit to something that you have almost no control over?
I think we can all agree that the authors of this gormless, trite piece of garbage, ought to be committed !
So we’re committed to 1.5C of warming likely before the end of the decade? Lol
Question is how much of those 1.5C of warming are the result of adjustments…
Did anyone quantify this already?
That would be interesting.
I really suspect the earth isn’t warming that much since the pre-industrial times.
All the land temperature records are based on GHCNm as far as I know so it should be a good starting point for analysis.
1.5C? 2.0C? It is all nonsense, we don’t know what the average global temperature was in the 1700’s and 1800’s. We don’t know what the average global temperature is today. The average global temperature is a meaningless standard.
Two questions to ask alarmists:
If they cannot answer these in a meaningful way, their alarmism is all bluster.
Given that previous warm spells (Roman and Medieval) were referred to as “optimum”, and that the Little Ice Age is considered sub-optimal by most people, why do the alarmists use 1850 to 1900 (end of the LIA) as their baseline, rather than, say the Medieval Warm Period?
The current ~1C global temperature “rise”, if real, could just be a return to the MWP optimum.