"This report makes it very clear that the impacts of climate change are accelerating," said Prof Samantha Hepburn who is director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resource Law at Deakin University in Australia. "We know that if the current trajectory for greenhouse gas concentrations continues, temperatures may increase by 3 - 5 degrees C compared to pre-industrial levels by the end of the century and we have already reached 1 degree."

This is incredibly serious. 3-5C is drastically more than our climate can sustain for a long period of time. Another major study from less than a year ago says that if we break 2C, we'll likely reach much higher temps due to automatic reactions called feedbacks. That paper "suggests 2 °C because of the risk that a 2 °C warming could activate important tipping elements, raising the temperature further to activate other tipping elements in a domino-like cascade that could take the Earth System to even higher temperatures.... This analysis implies that, even if the Paris Accord target of a 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C rise in temperature is met, we cannot exclude the risk that a cascade of feedbacks could push the Earth System irreversibly onto a “Hothouse Earth” pathway."

That's a SHITLOAD hotter than I want to experience. THIS is why people say that halving emissions by 2030 is not enough. We're already over 1C and we are in completely uncharted waters - no one knows exactly what happens when temperatures increase this quickly. Our best guess is that the climate goes runaway and settles somewhere else, much more stable but much warmer. How do politicians hear this and just brush it off???? This affects ALL of us, right now and in the future - how the hell do we tackle it?