Climate crisis: Even temporarily overshooting 2°C would cause permanent damage to Earth’s species

The concept of climate overshoot is the next thing we will need to get to grips with. Image: UNSPLASH/Jeremy Bezanger
Joanne Bentley
Postdoctoral Researcher in Molecular Ecology, African Climate & Development Initiative., University of Cape Town
Alex Pigot
Research Fellow, Genetics, Evolution & Environment Division of Biosciences., UCL
Andreas L. S. Meyer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Cape Town
Christopher Trisos
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland

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