NOAA - Net Heating Effect Of GHGs Up 1.5% Globally In Just One Year From 2012 To 2013

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3. 1.5% annually for 24 years,despite all the renewables we've installed

It means that all the renewables we've added to this point only worked to take the edge off our emissions.

If we want any chance at all of preventing a global catastrophe in our lifetimes, simply holding increases to 1.5% annually is pathetically insufficient.

As the article stated:

Reversing the continuing trend — the last decade has seen steady increases of 1.4 to 1.5 percent — won't be easy. The Kyoto Protocol, which the United States has declined to ratify, set as a goal reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels.

We're already so far beyond any semblance of a safe CO2 level in the atmosphere that we basically have to not only stop virtually all CO2 emissions in the next 15 years, but find ways to actively sequester CO2 as well. All the while supporting a global economy of 8-9 billion people.