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Climate Hopium thread #17— 23 October 2026

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Recent severe weather and reports on climate targets have brought more people here seeking reassurance about our efforts to address climate change. Please use this weekly thread for those discussions.

Climate change is a serious, compounding problem, and concerted action can make an enormous difference.

We can already see that difference in the long-term outlook. Climate Action Tracker’s current-policy projection improved from around 3.6°C of warming by 2100 in its 2015 assessment to around 2.6°C in its November 2025 assessment .

The 4°C world quietly stopped being the forecast

That represents an enormous amount of potential harm avoided.…

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