28th August 2025
Increases in temperature and in the frequency of extremes of weather (which for the UK means increasingly unpredictable seasons and no certainty as to whether summers will be hot and dry or not quite as hot but wet) are now a reality we must live with. But hopefully if we act now with sufficient determination, we can ensure that this base line remains static for future generations.
Climate mitigation means changing the way we do things, the way we live, the systems we use, so as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus to reduce the rate of increase in global temperatures – hopefully keeping them below 2C. Mitigation won’t be able to reduce global temperatures from the levels they have already reached – we don’t have the means to remove the sheer amount of carbon dioxide that we have put into the Earth’s atmosphere over the last couple of centuries.
The root meaning of mitigate is to soften, to calm or pacify.
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