We just hit 1.5 C above per-industrial levels for the first time.

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Global temperatures exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for first time
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they might just carry on until this planet is molten

The odds of true runaway warming are very low, the planet has both been much hotter and had much higher CO2 levels in the past. The Holocene is actually a cool period, geologically.

We're just going to make it too hot to grow enough crops to feed the world.

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