![]() ![]() Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons. "To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise – the best odds given by the – the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on Jan. "So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us - we who have to live with the consequences. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. ![]() ![]() But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. "The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees, and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.
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