Guardian: Planet has just 5% chance of reaching Paris climate goal

[Duppers]

1. "negates the most optimistic outcome as well as the worst case.."

Negates the worst case. That's encouraging but I'm not hanging hopes on this because 6C would mean we're pretty much screwed anyway.

Reported in The Independent:

The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be much higher nearer the poles – would have cataclysmic and irreversible consequences for the Earth, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable and threatening the basis of human civilisation.