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Global Warming Acceleration, presentation by Leon Simons at the Global Heating Emergency Conference

Oct 19, 2025 · 9 min · 8.8 MB
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In preparation for COP30, Leon gave this keynote presentation at the global online conference, "The Global Heating Emergency, Preventing 2°C by 2040: What’s the Plan?", which took place October 15-16.

In this presentation Leon talks about the increased rate of global heating and how accelerated warming will lead to rapidly crossing risk levels that the world agreed to avoid in Paris 10 years ago.

Other recordings of the will be available next week.

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Leon Simons is a climate scientist based in the Netherlands. He was a co-author with James Hansen on the 2023 "Global Warming in the Pipeline" paper that discussed the recent acceleration in global warming. Leon's work has focused recently on changes in aerosol emissions from ships and the impact of those changes on climate change. You can access Leon's research writings here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Leon-Simons

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