planet being dangerously on that level. [laughter] according to a new report released on monday. it eerily sounds like the same one. al gore and the rest of these fear-mongering have been screaming at us for the last 40 years. [applause] yeah! yeah. haha, so what, you peasants need to suffer or the whole world would be doomed. that contradicts the whole report. many scientists pointed out that surpassing the 1.5 degree threshold does not mean humanity is doomed. wait a second, wait, we are not doomed? [ bleep ] why did you say so to begin with? i am sure this so-called threshold is arbitrary. it is funny though the headline
expected to out the programs he signed into law to reduce pollution and promote clean energy across the u.s. cnn s david mckenzie joins us from egypt. there s a real chorus from developing nations asked to carry too much of this. reporter: well, carry too much weight with the emissions drops and big deal with the brunt of the climate catastrophe, max. world leaders are streaming in this morning. there will be tense negotiations behind the scenes specifically on the issue that you re talking about. if you look at the emissions goals, the planet is just not meeting them. we re going to blow well past 1.5 degree threshold agreed in the paris agreement and emissions are still growing. as it stands, we are more likely with current commitments to get over 2 degrees warming, well over that. that will mean a massive species dieoff. it will change the way we live. so there is a sense of urgency
record is that it lhas real-lif consequences. and that being this heat is impacting vulnerable people from the elderly to the very young, and it just continues. and we have into relief overnight, when our temperatures don t drop below that 75-80 degree threshold. unfortunately, heat illness can set in very quickly. so heat advisories across the country. over 60 million americans, current number is 68 million to be precise. here s a look at your temperatures. they are on their way up again for the nation s capital, new york and boston. we got a break from the humidity yesterday. that started to creep up as well. that s why we have some of these heat alerts. central portions of the country, missouri to kansas, triple digits very easily, and the heat will continue through the better part of the workweek as well. now check this out across pacific northwest.
talked about 250 million, 270 million americans dealing with temperatures above the 90 degree threshold. this was the last few million areas where we hadn t seen temperatures but, it s here now across the pacific northwest, seattle, portland toward eugene across the south as well where it could feel as hot as 100 to 109 degrees. climbing up, pretty impressive run of 90 degree days considering you get a couple of these per year, and now they are getting four of them in consecutive fashion. 79 is what you expect this time of year, and it speaks of the ridge of high pressure, we know how infamous this region is for cloud cover and scattered clouds of the leased. even this time of year but six of the next seven days hard- pressed to find much besides sunshine. working your way towards hong kong, the all-time hottest ever observed on record, 37.4 which is over 99 degrees fahrenheit, sunday afternoon, it had never reached 37 celsius in hong kong in recorded history, and what s
science and recommendations about policy says we need to put can our emissions in half as a planet by 2030 to give ourselves a decent chance of staying below this 1.5 degree threshold. we are not going to do that. we re going upward, a new peak right now, that means we are doing more damage this year, 2022, than in any year in the entire history of humanity, we re going to hit a new peak next year, possibly the year after that. we are not going to get down to 50% by 2030 which means we re almost certain to blow past that goal. the last report said even the trajectories designed to keep us below 1.5 degrees, they now believe we re going to go past that threshold. they want to say we can pull the temperature back down, but that s going to require a lot of complicating end of century stuff that we can t count on right now. so the targets that the world has embraced since the paris agreement i think are functionally now out of reach. you say the u.s. has good stuff in its favor in terms