Yes... They're saying if we take action we can keep it to current +0.5c, which would not be an existential threat we compared to the case where we don't take action and we get much more increase. Not sure what your disagreement here is, actually
i'm claiming that the difference between what the average person imagines on seeing the claim that "the world ends in 12 years" and "we have 12 years to prevent an additional temperature increase over 0.5 deg" is a really important one
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unlike the difference between, say, the destruction of the earth's surface and its core
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(nuclear war wouldn't destroy the earth's surface or probably even human civilization; this is a legitimate point to make)
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