Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins

The World Will Miss 1.5C. What Comes Next?


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Here’s the bad news: The world is almost certainly going to miss the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping global temperatures from rising beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. The needed emissions cuts are too large and the direction of policy too slow to lead to any other outcome. In the next few decades, global warming will slip past the 1.5 degree mark — and temperatures will keep rising.


What does that mean? What comes next? And how should we feel about that? On this week’s episode of Shift Key, Rob and Jesse chat with Kate Marvel, an associate research scientist at Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. We talk about why every 10th of a degree matters in the fight against climate change, the difference between tipping points and destabilizing feedback loops, and how to think about climate change in a disappointing time. Shift Key is hosted by Robinson Meyer, the founding executive editor of Heatmap, and Jesse Jenkins, a professor of energy systems engineering at Princeton University.


Mentioned: 


The UN Environmental Program’s emissions gap report


The IPCC’s monumental report on the risks of 1.5C of temperature rise


Jesse’s post-Trump op-ed: Trump Is Not the End of the Climate Fight


Rob’s piece from 2023 on the “end of climate science”


Trump’s Energy Secretary-designate Chris Wright’s speech at the American Conservation Coalition Summit


Jesse’s downshift; Rob’s upshift


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Music for Shift Key is by Adam Kromelow.

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