It’s Not Too Late to Limit Global Temperatures - But Almost

Climate Central: For a couple of years now, climate scientists have agreed that to avoid the most serious consequences of global warming we need to cap the planet's average temperature at no more than 2 degrees C (or 3.6°F) above where it stood in the 1800s. The temperature has already risen by about 1°C -- the longer we wait to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions, the harder it will be to reach that goal -- and the recent international climate talks in Doha made it clear that emissions aren't likely to be reined in...

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