Climate Change Catastrophe Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:01:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 We Have 12 Years to Limit a Climate Change Catastrophe https://www.greenoptimistic.com/we-have-12-years-to-limit-a-climate-change-catastrophe-20181012/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/we-have-12-years-to-limit-a-climate-change-catastrophe-20181012/#respond Fri, 12 Oct 2018 21:01:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67380 Leading climate scientists have warned that we only have a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C. Even a minuscule half degree higher will significantly worsen the risk of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. United Nation climate experts say urgent and unprecedented […]

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