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CONSERVATION GROUPS’ COMMENTS <br />UNCOMPAHGRE FIELD OFFICE RMP AND DEIS <br />9 <br /> <br />As noted above, the Paris Agreement commits all signatories—including the United <br />States—to a target holding long-term global average temperature “to well below 2°C above pre- <br />industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre- <br />industrial levels.”21 As articulated by a team of international climate scientists, including Dr. <br />James Hansen, in a 2013 report: “The widely accepted target of limiting human-made global <br />warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial level is too high and <br />would subject young people, future generations and nature to irreparable harm…. Observational <br />data reveal that some climate extremes are already increasing in response to warming of several <br />tenths of a degree in recent decades; these extremes would likely be much enhanced with <br /> 21 Paris Agreement at Art. 2 (attached as Exhibit 2).