Climate Change: Halving Carbon Dioxide Emissions By 2050 Could Stabilize Global Warming

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090502092019.htm
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ScienceDaily
Pub Date: 
4 May 2009
Category: 
Climate Science/Technology
If CO2 emissions are halved by 2050 compared to 1990, global warming
can be stabilized below two degrees, according to two new studies by a
co-operation of German, Swiss and British researchers in the journal
Nature. Many scientists have cited that warming beyond a global increase
of 2 degrees Celsius is likely to bring about catastrophic change. The
models used in these studies show that there is a 75 percent probability
that global warming will not exceed two degrees if a maximum of 1000
billion tonnes of CO2 are emitted into the atmosphere from 2000 to 2050.
Two hundred and thirty-four billion tonnes has already been put into the
atmosphere between 2000 and 2006. At this rate the budget would be
exhausted before 2030.