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  1. Dec 2022
    1. the impacts are much worse at lower temperatures than we thought so we thought they would occur at high temperatures now at lower temperatures and this is one of the strong reasons why we've moved from this 00:07:14 sort of does it work on here no it doesn't from the two degree Centigrade framing to 1.5 and let's also be clear again that 1.5 is not safe and the 1.5 informed cop 26 so this idea 00:07:28 of this language rhetorical political rhetoric really but keep 1.5 alive um and that's I think that has also become a much more of a 00:07:39 um of a framework for thinking about some of the issues on mitigation as well so I think there is some genuine concern behind trying to stay at 1.5 because there are good reasons not to go above it um even though the chances of not going 00:07:51 above it look incredibly Slim and I think this is something that said to me quite a lot at the uh cop in um in Glasgow by other colleagues from other people from elsewhere outside the global 00:08:02 North typically climate change is not a threat it's a reality

      !- key statement :shifting impacts with research - as research progressed, the harmful impacts found at the original 2 Deg C threshold were found to occur a 1.5 Deg C.