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Two Decades Until Carbon Budget Is Eaten Through
2014-09-21 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: If the planet's carbon budget, which is the amount of fuel we can burn, concrete we can pour and forest we can fell without blowing global warming goals, was a giant cake, then we'd all be running out of dessert -- fast. We've got about a third left. We've been eating into the carbon budget since the Industrial Revolution. Just nibbling at first, but now with record relish. Figures published Sunday warn delegates attending Tuesday's U.N. Climate Summit in New York that, at the rate we're going,...
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