#MyClimateQuestions: experts and youth leaders respond – as it happened

School students plan to go on strike in protest against inaction on climate change. Whether you approve of the strike or not, you were invited to submit questions here to be answered by climate experts and young campaigners. This blog is now closed - thanks for being part of #MyClimateQuestions

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Thank you everyone, this has been one of the most rewarding, illuminating blogs I've had the joy of running.

Thanks to our panellists: Bill Hare, Simon Holmes i Court, Amanda McKenzie, Laura Sykes and Piper Albrecht. And thanks to my colleague Lisa Cox.

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And one last question, from Sunny Adcock:

If I am currently 18, do you think that within my lifetime there is hope of preventing climate change? Realistically what is the best and worse case scenario of what may happen within my lifetime?

Yes there definitely is hope.

The best case is getting onto a 1.5C pathway, in which case, by the time you turn 50 scientists might be saying that global warming peaked in the 2040s. By the time you are 100, it could be 1.3C or lower and on the way down.