CBS "climate specialist": It's critical the Earth not warm 1.5 degrees Celsius
CBS anchor: Why?
Climate specialist: Well b/c that's the number "we chose"#Science pic.twitter.com/k6ILumkfqI
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 28, 2021
Book reveals UN’s goal of ‘2 degree’ limit of ‘global warming’ has no scientific basis – ‘Pulled out of thin air’https://t.co/qqgY5AobnE
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) May 30, 2021
In 2007, Phil Jones: “The 2 deg C limit…is never defined though what it means. Is it 2 deg C for globe or for Europe? Also when is/was the base against which 2 deg C is calculated from? I know you don’t know answer, but I don’t either! I think it is plucked out of thin air.”
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) May 30, 2021
“Two degrees is not a magical limit—it’s clearly a political goal,” says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) May 30, 2021
Professor Roger Pielke Jr. explained in 2017 that the 2-degree goal “is an arbitrary round number that was politically convenient. So it became a sort of scientific truth. However, it has little scientific basis but is a hard political reality.”
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) May 30, 2021