What is the carbon budget, and what happens if we don’t reach it? Why is 1.5 degrees warming our target? What does 1.5C mean, is that how much hotter the globe is now compared to 200 years ago? If we reach the carbon budget, does that mean climate change will become 100% irreversible and the earth will heat up until humanity has to move off-planet?
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Carbon budget is an arbitrary target for man-made CO2 emissions predicated on computer models which have been proven wrong repeatedly.
And the effects are unknown because the models have been proven wrong repeatedly.
There is no doubt humanity contributes to a changing climate but the extent of which is unclear and the impacts are also unclear.
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