Climate Change Is Forcing Earth Toward a 'Hothouse' Point of No Return

The fires blazing throughout Europe and California are being fed by unusually hot temperatures and dry conditions.

They’re just one example of how extreme environmental changes in one area can cause extreme environmental changes in another. Collectively, these powerful “feedback loops” are making the global climate crisis much worse.

Now a group of scientists is warning that the Paris climate agreement goal of keeping global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is not aggressive enough to protect the planet from catastrophic consequences. The reason, according to the Guardian, is because even more powerful feedback loops will be triggered upon reaching this temperature threshold.

Read the story from Global Citizen by Joe McCarthy - “Climate Change Is Forcing Earth Toward a 'Hothouse' Point of No Return.”