Humanity is rapidly reaching the limit for how much additional carbon can be emitted into the atmosphere to keep global warming within 1.5 °C, according to a new research.
Humanity is rapidly reaching the limit for how much additional carbon can be emitted into the atmosphere to keep global warming within 1.5 °C, according to a new research.
If emissions stay at current day levels, what is known as the "remaining carbon budget" will be exhausted before the end of the decade.
Dr Chris Smith, climate modeller and a research fellow in the School of Earth and Environment at Leeds, co-authored the study. He said: “This study gives the most updated measure of how much more carbon dioxide humanity can continue to put into the atmosphere to give us a fifty per cent chance of staying within the 1.5 °C threshold agreed at international climate talks.
"If we continue to emit carbon dioxide at current levels, we will exhaust that remaining 1.5°C carbon budget in just six years.
Read more at: University of Leeds
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