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At This Rate, World Will Have to Cease All Carbon Emissions in 2040 to Stay Under 2°C
2014-11-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Think Progress: By 2040, the world will emit all the carbon it can afford while remaining within safe ranges of climate change, according to a report released last week. Scientists and policymakers have generally settled on 2°C as the amount of global temperature increase, over pre-industrial levels, the climate can take without creating truly dangerous upheavals. Because the effect of carbon in the atmosphere is cumulative, staying below that threshold requires a hard limit on the amount of carbon the world emits...
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