Earth will still warm to 3.5°C by 2100 if Paris pledges adhered to

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emo to media: If countries go no further than their current global climate pledges, the earth will warm a total of 3.5°C by 2100.

Christiana Figueres - release is
too-cleverly worded.

A very misleading news release from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — coupled with an opaque UNFCCC report on those pledges, which are called intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) — has, understandably, left the global media thinking the climate talks in Paris get us much closer to 2°C than they actually do.

Indeed, the news release contains this too-cleverly worded paragraph quoting UNFCCC Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary:

“The INDCs have the capability of limiting the forecast temperature rise to around 2.7 degrees Celsius by 2100, by no means enough but a lot lower than the estimated four, five, or more degrees of warming projected by many prior to the INDCs,” said Ms. Figueres.

Read the ClimateProgress story - “Misleading U.N. Report Confuses Media On Paris Climate Talks.”