{"id":7474,"date":"2020-01-15T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7474"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"new-climate-models-suggest-paris-goals-may-be-out-of-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/15\/new-climate-models-suggest-paris-goals-may-be-out-of-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"New Climate Models Suggest Paris Goals May Be Out Of Reach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New\nclimate models show carbon dioxide is a more potent greenhouse gas than\npreviously understood, a finding that could push the Paris treaty goals for\ncapping global warming out of reach, scientists have told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developed\nin parallel by separate teams in half-a-dozen countries, the models &#8212; which\nwill underpin revised UN temperature projections next year &#8212; suggest\nscientists have for decades consistently underestimated the warming potential\nof CO2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vastly more data and computing power have become available since the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections were finalised in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We\nhave better models now,&#8221; Olivier Boucher, head of the Institut Pierre\nSimon Laplace Climate Modelling Centre in Paris, told AFP, adding that they\n&#8220;represent current climate trends more accurately&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most\ninfluential projections from government-backed teams in the US, Britain, France\nand Canada point to a future in which CO2 concentrations that have long been\nequated with a 3C world would more likely heat the planet&#8217;s surface by four or\nfive degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you think the new models give a more realistic picture, then it will, of course, be harder to achieve the Paris targets, whether it is 1.5 or two degrees Celsius,&#8221; scientist Mark Zelinka told AFP. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/health\/New-climate-models-suggest-Paris-goals-may-be-out-of-reach-\/1954202-5418154-gkgfarz\/index.html\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation New climate models show carbon dioxide is a more potent greenhouse gas than previously understood, a finding that could push the Paris treaty goals for capping global&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}