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Climate change is a serious problem that can be understood through simple math. Burning fossil fuels is releasing carbon dioxide that is trapping heat in the atmosphere and changing the climate in dangerous ways. If we want to avoid catastrophic consequences, we must transition to renewable energy sources and leave fossil fuels in the ground.
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Editor's Notes
- Fossil fuel corporations have 5 times more oil and coal and gas in known reserves than climate scientists think is safe to burn. We have to keep 80% of their fossil fuels underground to keep the earth in livable shape
- 2 degrees— Almost every government in the world has agreed that any warming above a 2°C (3.6°F) rise would be unsafe. We have already raised the temperature .8°C, and that has caused far more damage than most scientists expected. A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the climate dice are loaded for both devastating floods and drought.
- 565 gigatons — Scientists estimate that humans can pour roughly 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and still have some reasonable hope of staying below two degrees. Computer models calculate that even if we stopped increasing CO2 levels now, the temperature would still rise another 0.8 degrees above the 0.8 we’ve already warmed, which means that we’re already 3/4s of the way to the 2 degree target.
- 2,795 gigatons — The Carbon Tracker Initiative, a team of London financial analysts and environmentalists, estimates that proven coal, oil, and gas reserves of the fossil-fuel companies, and the countries (think Venezuela or Kuwait) that act like fossil-fuel companies, equals about 2,795 gigatons of CO2, or five times the amount we can release to maintain 2 degrees of warming.
- A global temperature rise exceeding 2 °C will have catastrophic and unpredictable impacts. To keep below 2 °C we have to limit future greenhouse gas emissions and keep within a ‘carbon budget’. According to Carbon Tracker, in collaboration with the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the budget is 900 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. (See: Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets <http://carbontracker.live.kiln.it/Unburnable-Carbon-2-Web-Version.pdf> .) The pink cube, which is 78 km high (49 miles) is the actual volume of 900 billion tonnes of CO2 (at standard pressure and 15 °C). The shapes to the right show the emissions from proven reserves listed in Global Energy Outlook 2012. <http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/English.pdf>
- A global temperature rise exceeding 2 °C will have catastrophic and unpredictable impacts. To keep below 2 °C we have to limit future greenhouse gas emissions and keep within a ‘carbon budget’. According to Carbon Tracker, in collaboration with the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the budget is 900 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. (See: Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets.) The pink cube, which is 78 km high (49 miles) is the actual volume of 900 billion tonnes of CO2 (at standard pressure and 15 °C). The shapes to the right show the emissions from proven reserves listed in Global Energy Outlook 2012