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While the reality of overshoot is daunting, we cannot allow it to be paralyzing. Our collective choices now can still shape the future. Read more: blog.ucs.org/carly-philli...
We’re on Track to Overshoot 1.5°C of Global Warming: Why Does That Matter?
Not unexpected, still devastating: Carly explores the consequences of failing to limit global warming.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
While the reality of overshoot is daunting, we cannot allow it to be paralyzing. Our collective choices now can still shape the future. Read more: blog.ucs.org/carly-philli...
Investments in resilience can still help to protect the most vulnerable, and while temperatures will exceed 1.5°C over the long term, the magnitude and duration of that overshoot is still within our power.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Investments in resilience can still help to protect the most vulnerable, and while temperatures will exceed 1.5°C over the long term, the magnitude and duration of that overshoot is still within our power.
Once overshoot occurs, bringing temperatures back down is incredibly difficult. To actually reduce temperatures, it won’t be enough to just slash emissions to net zero—we will have to go well beyond that and actually remove CO2 that is already in the atmosphere to get to net negative emissions.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Once overshoot occurs, bringing temperatures back down is incredibly difficult. To actually reduce temperatures, it won’t be enough to just slash emissions to net zero—we will have to go well beyond that and actually remove CO2 that is already in the atmosphere to get to net negative emissions.
Knowledge is foundational to action. Being able to recognize what’s happening for what it is—and sharing this knowledge with others—is step one for any successful resistance movement. Spread the word. blog.ucs.org/jennifer-jon...
What Authoritarian Regimes Do
As we speak, the Trump administration is abandoning principles of democracy and dismantling the rule of law. The willful destruction of the federal science apparatus is but one harmful and onerous asp...
blog.ucs.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Knowledge is foundational to action. Being able to recognize what’s happening for what it is—and sharing this knowledge with others—is step one for any successful resistance movement. Spread the word. blog.ucs.org/jennifer-jon...
UCS has been tracking and calling out attacks on science for more than 20 years, including during the current Trump administration. You can learn more about these attacks and the harms they cause to people & communities in our Attacks on Science tracker: www.ucs.org/resources/at...
Attacks on Science
Disappearing data. Silenced scientists. We've tracked threats to the federal scientific enterprise for decades.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
UCS has been tracking and calling out attacks on science for more than 20 years, including during the current Trump administration. You can learn more about these attacks and the harms they cause to people & communities in our Attacks on Science tracker: www.ucs.org/resources/at...