{"id":1787787,"date":"2019-09-20T11:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787787"},"modified":"2019-09-20T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T14:29:41","slug":"beyond-the-two-degree-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/09\/beyond-the-two-degree-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Two-Degree Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two degrees Celsius. That\u2019s the redline. The average global temperature increase we need to keep below, according to the 2015 Paris Agreement<\/a>. But as the Washington Post<\/em> points out in two heavily mapped stories\u2014one for the United States<\/a>, one for the entire world<\/a>\u2014that show the change in average temperatures since the late 1800s, there are places on the planet that have already blown past that two-degree limit. [Maps Mania<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two degrees Celsius. That\u2019s the redline. The average global temperature increase we need to keep below, according to the 2015 Paris Agreement. But as the Washington Post points out in two heavily mapped stories\u2014one for… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14,879],"class_list":["post-1787787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788736,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/the-washington-post-maps-wildlife-corridors-in-wyoming\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787787,"position":0},"title":"The Washington Post Maps Wildlife Corridors in Wyoming","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Last month the Washington Post published a feature on the impact of Interstate 80 on wildlife migrations in Wyoming, and how climate change would affect animals\u2019 ability to move to new habitat as their usual stomping grounds are made unsuitable by global warming. 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