Burning Questions: What’s the deal with 1.5 degrees?
Burning Questions: What’s the deal with 1.5 degrees?  
Podcast: How We Survive
Published On: Wed Jun 26 2024
Description: In the past decade, 1.5 has become an important number when talking about the climate crisis. (As in 1½ degrees Celsius, which equates to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.) It’s considered the maximum increase in temperature since preindustrial times that Earth can handle before all sorts of terrible things happen. But on the surface, 1.5 degrees doesn’t sound like a huge number. So what gives? In this episode, Amy chats with climate experts to dive deeper into what this number actually means.