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Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe By John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/12/world/3-degrees-sea-level-rise-climate-central/index.html  October 12, 2021

roughly 50 major coastal cities will need to implement "unprecedented" adaptation measures to prevent rising seas from swallowing their most populated areas.

In September, a study published in the journal Nature found nearly 60% of the planet's remaining oil and natural gas and 90% of its coal reserves should remain in the ground by 2050 to have a higher chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Photo illustration of potential sea levels at Lalbagh Fort in Dhaka, Bangladesh due to human-caused global warming. On right -if 3 degree C warming. Original image by Syedsazzadulhoque via Climate Central  https://www.climatecentral.org/ 

Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/sep/19/shell-and-exxons-secret-1980s-climate-change-warnings Benjamin Franta  19 Sep 2018

Newly found documents from the 1980s show that fossil fuel companies privately predicted the global damage that would be caused by their products.

In 1982, for example, Exxon predicted that by about 2060, CO2 levels would reach around 560 parts per million – double the preindustrial level – and that this would push the planet’s average temperatures up by about 2°C over then-current levels

in 1988, an internal report by Shell projected similar effects but also found that CO2 could double even earlier, by 2030. Shell’s assessment foresaw a one-meter sea-level rise, and noted that warming could also fuel disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, resulting in a worldwide rise in sea level of “five to six meters.”

Also see: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/climate-consensus-the-97-percent 

A global carbon removal industry is coming – experts explain the problems it must overcome  https://theconversation.com/a-global-carbon-removal-industry-is-coming-experts-explain-the-problems-it-must-overcome-169175 October 13, 2021 
Johanna Forster, Naomi Vaughan, University of East Anglia

the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that technologies that remove CO₂ from the air like this will be needed alongside deep cuts in emissions to reduce global warming. In fact, climate scientists modelling pathways for stabilising warming at 1.5°C (the goal of the Paris agreement) assume that a carbon removal industry based around one method may need to be around 40% the size of the current fossil fuel industry.

World leaders need a more complete picture of the complexity we know exists in the real world before embarking on the construction of a global carbon removal industry. Making this happen is as much a question of who pays to remove the carbon and who has a say in how the land is managed, as details about technology. If the political and social limitations are not better understood, then it is hard to imagine how these carbon removal pipe dreams will get off the ground.

Sugar cane grown for ethanol production in Brazil. Mailsonpignata/Shutterstock

India won’t commit to ‘net zero’ goal at COP26  https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/india-wont-commit-to-net-zero-goal-at-cop26/87220140  Vishwa Mohan, TNN October 23, 2021

Though India is not against ‘net zero’ goal per se, the country will not commit to the 2050 timeline. It will strongly underline its demand for the developed world sticking to the principle of common but differentiated responsibility and the need to deliver on climate change mitigation finance.