POLSCI 2J03 Lecture Notes - Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Bad Planet, Ecocentrism

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Gov"ts have agreed to keep change within 2c of pre-industrial age: if it gets warmer, it will lead to extremely dangerous climate change, there is an agreement regarding the importance. In order to limit it to 2c - we have to limit the amount of co that is put into the atmosphere, to. 1,000 gigatons of human made carbon going into the atmosphere. Problem - we"ve already put more than half of this in: 2011 - more than half or 531 gigatons. Second amount since the industrial revolution more than 500 gigatons. Third amount is how much we have left in our carbon budget (565gt co2) Fourth amount is the amount of carbon that is in the earth in the form of fossil fuels. We do not seem to be on track! We only have ~500 gts left of co2 emissions.

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