my guest isjim skea, chair of the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change. a recent poll of international climate scientists pointed to growing despair. are we humans bungling our chance to avert disaster? jim skea, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for the invite. it is great to have you in this studio. let's start with a blunt first question. is it time for the international community to junk this idea that there's any possibility of limiting worldwide temperature rise to below the 1.5 degrees celsius? when we produced our landmark report five years ago, we said it was possible within the laws of physics and chemistry, and the biggest obstacle to keeping within the limit was actually on the social and institutional side. we, i think, now need to move to the position, we have to look very hard at whether we will be pushing against technical and economic barriers in terms of limiting warming to1.5. it is not absolutely impossible, but the chances are diminishing. and, really, it's hanging on a thread at the moment. right. isn't that a tactful way of saying, "i'm n

the intergovernmental panel on climate change is doing its job. it says when we use emission scenarios they have to be plausible, they have to be capable of occurring in the real world. so i use this green oval and i drew a circle around all these because these are the 2005 to 2010 scenarios that were developed. because they were put in the database we can conclude they thought all of them were plausible. so my colleagues and said, a lot of time has passed since 2005. we know what has happened with the mission so we can compare the real world to what the scenarios put forward. the other thing we can do is that the energy system modelers produce short-term energy outlook that are updated every year. so they are the best view into what will happen next year and the next five in the next 10 so we ask, of this big body of 1200 scenarios, which one survived the test of reality and where we think we are headed today? here is the answer. all of the scenarios that survive the test of reality and the test of near-term projections sit between two and 3 degr

my guest isjim skea, chair of the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change.mans bungling our chance to avert disaster? jim skea, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for the invite.

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my guest isjim skea, chair of the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change.g our chance to avert disaster? jim skea, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for the invite. it is great to have you in this studio. let's start with a blunt first question. is it time for the international community to junk this idea that there's any possibility of limiting worldwide temperature rise to below the 1.5 degrees

my guest isjim skea, chair of the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change.

the intergovernmental panel on climate change in doing its job says when we use emissions scenarios they have to be plausible. they have to be capable of occurring in the real world. i drew a circle around all of these the 2005 to 2010 scenarios. because the ipcc put it into their database you can conclude they thought they were all plausible. what we did was we set all right a lot of time has passed since 2005. we know what happened with emissions. we can compare the real world with what the emissions scenarios put forward. the everything we can do is the energy system models like the international energy agency and fuel companies in the information agency short-term energy outlook's. these are updated every year. about every couple decades so there's a best view into what's going to happen next year they are after the next five years in the next 10 years. we asked the question of this big latte of 1200 scenarios which ones survived the test a reality in b where we think we are headed today rather than 2005. here is the answer. the all of the scenarios that survived the test of reality

i am the us representative to the united nations intergovernmental panel on soils where i'm the lead author on the north american assessment of the forthcoming 25 status to the world soils report. climate change is a serious risk. longworth house office building variability precipitously precipitation extremes have significant challenges for farmers. we should take steps to adapt to climate change, when and where it makes sense, without slowing the progress we've made towards improving the human condition much of which is attribute of will to agriculture. in the last 50 years alone, we've doubled production per acre, the annual rate of yield gain shows no signs of declining and the increase in production is a company by reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. emissions from crop production were significant and the most difficult to abate because unlike other sectors they are not from fossil fuel combustion. they are from nitrous oxide, byproduct of processes critical for plant growth. improved management of nitrogen and water are required to minimize agricultural emissions. although

it says almost 80% of respondents from the authoritative internet intergovernmental panel on climateate change, the ipcc, foresee at least a 2.5% of global heating, whilst almost half anticipate at least a 3 degrees rise . and they are 3 degrees rise. and they are warning that that rise to two and a half degrees will be catastrophic and semi dystopian. so yeah, make of that what you will. happy weekend . let's move will. happy weekend. let's move now to our reporter will hollis. our east midlands reporter who is in nottingham i think. well the sun's already shining. it's basking your face. is it hot in that suit . that suit. >> yes. quite warm . not the >> yes. quite warm. not the warmest i've ever been. while reporting for gb news. but it is bright, clear blue skies here in the centre of the country, as it is in most parts of the uk right now. and while we know that those thunderstorms, two yellow weather warnings are in coming tomorrow, tomorrow is another day . but for tomorrow, tomorrow is another day. but for right now we're experiencing temperatures of up to 26 degrees here in

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