Many have noticed that recent speeches written for child activist Greta Thunberg are basing the climate “emergency” on the rapidly closing “carbon budget”. This post aims to summarize how alarmists define the so-called carbon budget, and why their claims to its authority are spurious. In the text and at the bottom are links to websites where readers can access both the consensus science papers and the analyses showing the flaws in the carbon budget notion. Excerpts are in italics with my bolds.
The 2019 update on the Global Carbon Budget was reported at Future Earth article entitled Global Carbon Budget Estimates Global CO2 Emissions Still Rising in 2019. The results were published by the Global Carbon Project in the journals Nature Climate Change, Environmental Research Letters, and Earth System Science Data. Excerpts below in italics with my bolds.
History of Growing CO2 Emissions
“Carbon dioxide emissions must decline sharply if…
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