Op-Ed Argues IPCC Should Abandon Goal of Staying Below 1.5C Warming

An opinion piece published in Le Monde argues that scenarios expected to guide the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are scientifically untenable, according to the newspaper.

The op-ed's authors, historian of science Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and social sciences doctoral researcher Lou Stührenberg, contend that abandoning the goal of returning global warming below the 1.5C threshold does not mean giving up on climate action, but rather finally confronting the real questions, according to Le Monde.