how did it go from 12 years to save the planet to 17 months?
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It did what please? Can you provide a link for further reading?
New data on unprecedented glacial melt happening in Greenland and other arctic regions, made them ring alarm bells:
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/08/greenland-is-track-record-melt-year-having-already-lost-billion-tons-ice/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/08/greenland-is-track-record-melt-year-having-already-lost-billion-tons-ice/)
**edited link – did not mean to post a cat vid :P**
It’s not just the arctic glacials that’s melting, its the trapped methane bubbles trapped in the ice that is released. You cant put that genie back in the bottle. You couple that with existing pollution and growing fracking and Amazon fires and you expedite the speed exponentially.
Our “contribution” of damage isn’t linear, and humans have kinda fucked up the past years really hard, plus all the forest fires, oil leaks, etc. that essentially damaged the environment even more. There also has been a huge amount of “illegal” (and unrecorded) emission by many companies, so it was re-estimated again with those factored.
There also has been a much higher amount of heatwaves, which people tried to compensate for by turning up their ACs, fans, etc. – more than usual, and respectively more electricity was used, and that electricity also has to come from somewhere.
Glaciers melting and trees that would bind CO2 as well also let out huge amounts of CO2 when burned/molten.
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