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Rhiannon12866

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Sun Jul 6, 2025, 10:15 PM Jul 2025

Study warns 1.5-degree warming limit can't prevent dangers of melting glaciers - PBS NewsHour



The 2015 Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius was thought to be the threshold for averting severe climate change impacts. But new research says even that level is too high to prevent the catastrophic consequences of sea level rise due to melting glaciers. John Yang speaks with Chris Stokes, one of the study’s authors, to learn more. - Aired on 07/06/2025.
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Study warns 1.5-degree warming limit can't prevent dangers of melting glaciers - PBS NewsHour (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jul 2025 OP
Aren't the glaciers already melting? Norrrm Jul 2025 #1

Norrrm

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1. Aren't the glaciers already melting?
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 11:34 PM
Jul 2025

More of a matter of how fast we may be able to control the melting.
IF we can control it.
IF we have the willingness to do something about it.

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