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Fritz

Yet again your ignorance on climate change astounds me -The Paris agreement actually committed to holding the ongoing rise in global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels,” while “pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.” and not the mythical one tenth of a degree you seem so wedded to.

If you want statistics there are plenty out there -all you need too do is open your eyes and absorb information -for instance:

The European Geo-sciences Union published a study in April 2016 that examined the impact of a 1.5 degree Celsius vs. a 2.0 C temperature increase by the end of the century, given what we know so far about how climate works. It found that the jump from 1.5 to 2 degrees—a third more of an increase—raises the impact by about that same fraction, very roughly, on most of the phenomena the study covered. Heat waves would last around a third longer, rain storms would be about a third more intense, the increase in sea level would be approximately that much higher and the percentage of tropical coral reefs at risk of severe degradation would be roughly that much greater.

-bear in mind that this for the most part is considered a conservative projection but is cited in many academic journals -none of what is being asked in the Paris agreement is either unachievable or affordable -the main premise was that the most polluting nations pay the most of this cost -a bit like commercial refuse really in that the biggest polluters pay the most.