I've taken the liberty of editing a graphic that compares the impacts of global heating from 1.5°C up to 4.0°C above pre-industrial levels.

The first image shown below [original source in comment that follows] states that heating of up to 2C is what we can expect by the year 2100. As for 3C and 4C, those impacts will not be felt until "Hundreds of years from now."

Which is plainly ridiculous. So, in the second image, I added warnings about the actual observed rate of global heating and the probable increase in temperatures during the next several decades.

I certainly *wish* that 3C and 4C were hundreds of years away, but they're not. In reality, 1.5C will likely be upon us before we know it, and we'll hit 2C by 2040, if not sooner. On our present course, 3C is almost a certainty this century, and 4C or even higher cannot be ruled out.

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