> This pact aims to keep the rise in global temperatures well below 2C this century and to pursue efforts to keep it under 1.5C.
It seems to me that continuing to communicate just the average temperature increase is a missed opportunity to engage with a greater portion of the population.
1.5 or 2 degrees do not seem like much, but once one understands that’s an average made out of much bigger positive and negative swings in temperature, one gets a much more dramatic picture.
I suspect focusing on the widening of the temperature range, rather than the average temperature change would work better with communications to the wider public
It seems to me that continuing to communicate just the average temperature increase is a missed opportunity to engage with a greater portion of the population.
1.5 or 2 degrees do not seem like much, but once one understands that’s an average made out of much bigger positive and negative swings in temperature, one gets a much more dramatic picture.
I suspect focusing on the widening of the temperature range, rather than the average temperature change would work better with communications to the wider public