COP 29 THE RESULT

 Here is a piece taken from the BBC report on the latest climate meeting in Azerbaijan. What I find unbelievable is the complete faith implied in the quoted projection of temperature change by 2100. Why should anyone have such faith, when virtually all the predictions that have been made in the past have proved false, such as the summer ice-free Arctic, and the rise in world temperatures from computer programmes. Doubt is simply not allowed, despite the many failures. It seems much more like a religion than a scientific study.  

Climate change: Where do we stand?

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A recent UN report warned that current policies put the world on track for around 3C warming by the end of the century, with other organisations mirroring those figures.

This is well above the target set out in the Paris agreement - which about 200 countries signed in 2015 - which aimed to limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

The 1.5C target is still "technically possible", the UN says, but would need significant cuts to emissions in the next 10 years.