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Paris climate talks: Why all the fuss over 2 measly degrees?

As leaders from about 150 countries around the world gather in Paris for the next two weeks, they have already agreed on one point: Global average temperatures must not be allowed to rise more than 2 C over the averages of the pre-industrial era.

Goal of COP21 summit is to keep Earth from warming more than 2 C. Why?

2 Degrees

9 years ago
Duration 1:41
As leaders from about 150 countries around the world gather in Paris for the next two weeks, they have already agreed to on one point: global average temperatures must not be allowed to rise more than 2C over the averages of the pre-industrial era.

As leaders from about 150countries around the world gather in Paris for the next two weeks, they have already agreedon one point: Global average temperatures must not be allowed to rise more than 2 C over the averages of the pre-industrial era.

The questionthat remains for world leaders is: how?

The question for most other people is: why?

Two degrees may not seem like much of a change in a country with places that routinely experiencetemperature swings from 30 C in one seasondown to 30 C just a few months later but we are talking about the average for the entire globe.

And that means it's a change that will be felt in the air, onlandand inthe water.

Watch the video above or hereto see how and why two degrees matters.

Effects of temperature change