2 degrees: The most important number you've never heard of

Skeptical Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:16 pm

But here's why it matters: If we humans warm the world more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), we greatly up the odds of climate catastrophes.

Think super droughts, rising seas, mass extinctions and acidifying oceans.

We don't want to cross that mark.

Humans never have lived in post-2-degree world, said Carlo Jaeger, chair of the Global Climate Forum, based in Germany, and author of a paper on this history of 2 degrees.

"If we start warming the planet way beyond what humans have ever experienced, God knows what will wait for us," he told me.

Good news, though. If we drastically cut carbon emissions, we can stay below the 2-degree threshold. As part of this series, I'll be exploring exactly what it would take to do so.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/opinions/sutter-climate-two-degrees/index.html

IIRC, the US has jumped on this bandwagon of fear and is attempting to control carbon emissions.

My question to the Algore sheep .. what is your plan to force the rest of the countries to get on board and prevent this certain doom?