{"id":6529,"date":"2019-01-15T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2019-01-28T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T23:30:48","slug":"immediate-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-phase-out-may-keep-global-warming-below-1-5-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/immediate-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-phase-out-may-keep-global-warming-below-1-5-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Immediate fossil fuel infrastructure phase-out may keep global warming below 1.5\u00b0 C <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-018-07999-w\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0January 15, 2019 11:00 ET<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.nature.com\/?post_type=press_release&amp;p=135537\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from Nature Research Press)<br \/>\nImmediately starting to phase out fossil fuel infrastructure as it reaches the end of its expected lifetime may result in a 64 per cent chance that global mean temperature rise will remain below 1.5\u00b0 C relative to pre-industrial levels. The research suggests that delaying mitigation until 2030 reduces the likelihood that 1.5\u00b0 C would be attainable, even if the rate of retirement was accelerated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author: <\/strong>Kirsten Zickfeld, Simon Fraser University &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kzickfel@sfu.ca\" target=\"_blank\">kzickfel@sfu.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature Communications Published\u00a0January 15, 2019 11:00 ET (News release from Nature Research Press) Immediately starting to phase out fossil fuel infrastructure as it reaches the end of its expected lifetime may result in a 64 per cent chance that global mean temperature rise will remain below 1.5\u00b0 C relative to pre-industrial levels. The research suggests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/building-2058_640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Hj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}