It is very disturbing when an institution like MIT puts out such garbage!
Just the ad nauseam repeated 1.5 C are extremely dubious itself. What a pretension of precision! Just the concept of global average atmospheric temperatures is vague and imprecise. E.g. what about the temperature in the oceans?
Of course, 8 billion humans roaming the earth have some impact on the climate no matter what form of energy they produce.
"... These extreme weather events are mainly a consequence of climate change driven by humans’ continued burning of coal, oil, and natural gas. Climate scientists agree that extreme weather such as what people experienced this summer will likely grow more frequent and intense in the coming years unless something is done, on a persistent and planet-wide scale, to rein in global temperatures. ..."
A reliable reference??? The last Ice Age (The Little Ice Age) ended around 1830! Seems more like cherry picked or deliberately and falsely chosen.
"... The treaty did not define a particular preindustrial period, though scientists generally consider the years from 1850 to 1900 to be a reliable reference; this time predates humans’ use of fossil fuels and is also the earliest period when global observations of land and sea temperatures are available. During this period, the average global temperature, while swinging up and down in certain years, generally hovered around 13.5 degrees Celsius, or 56.3 degrees Fahrenheit. ..."
What a fool is Sergey Paltsev?
"... “There is nothing magical about the 1.5 number, other than that is an agreed aspirational target. ... What is known: The lower the target for an increase in temperature, the lower the risks of climate impacts.” ..."
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