«It's a true firestorm — extremely fast moving, generating its own weather conditions, and burning literally everything in its path,» Daniel Swain, a climate earth system scientist at Stanford University, said. (scientificamerican.com)
«The WRI commentary is correct,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, which tracks greenhouse gas pollution. (sciencemag.org)
«Limiting total CO2 emissions from the start of 2015 to beneath 240 billion tonnes of carbon − 880 billion tonnes of CO2 — or about 20 years of current emissions would likely achieve the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,» says study leader Richard Millar, a climate system scientist at the University of Oxford. (climatenewsnetwork.net)