Climate Central: The idea of a finite "carbon budget' -- a key part of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recent assessment of climate change -- have been ignored at the ongoing climate talks in Warsaw, which end on Friday, in favor of what some scientists say are piecemeal emissions cuts that are less likely to solve the problem.
By framing the issue in terms of a carbon budget based around cumulative emissions, the IPCC's most recent report showed that it doesn't necessarily matter what short-term...