{"id":5401,"date":"2015-01-08T23:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T06:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2015-01-08T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T06:16:19","slug":"the-geographical-distribution-of-fossil-fuels-unused-when-limiting-global-warming-to-2-degc-nature-nature-publishing-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 [deg]C : Nature : Nature Publishing Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Policy makers have generally agreed that the average global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions should not exceed 2 \u00b0C above the average global temperature of pre-industrial times1. It has been estimated that to have at least a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 2 \u00b0C throughout the twenty-first century, the cumulative carbon emissions between 2011 and 2050 need to be limited to around 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (Gt CO2)2, 3. However, the greenhouse gas emissions contained in present estimates of global fossil fuel reserves are around three times higher than this2, 4, and so the unabated use of all current fossil fuel reserves is incompatible with a warming limit of 2 \u00b0C.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v517\/n7533\/full\/nature14016.html\">The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 [deg]C : Nature : Nature Publishing Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Policy makers have generally agreed that the average global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions should not exceed 2 \u00b0C above the average global temperature of pre-industrial times1. It has been estimated that to have at least a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 2 \u00b0C throughout the twenty-first century, the cumulative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}