- Looking for a new adventure bike, preferably a drop-handle carbon-frame hardtail for under $2000 budget... any recommendations? (including used/secondhand) https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/94aeya/looking_for_a_new_adventure_bike_preferably_a/ 2 comments bicycling
- Carbon-Free Nuclear Fusion Is Coming, if It Survives Budget Cuts - "By 2025, the consensus goes, the scientific joint venture should be able to create and sustain a fusion reaction that produces more energy than it took to start" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-29/carbon-free-nuclear-fusion-is-coming-if-it-survives-trump-s-budget-cuts 16 comments technology
- World on track to exceed 1.5°C consistently in seven years, Global Carbon Budget shows https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/12/05/world-on-track-to-exceed-15c-consistently-in-seven-years-global-carbon-budget-shows 2 comments environment
- Climate Alert: Depletion of 1.5°C Carbon Budget Anticipated by 2029 https://vidhyashankr22.medium.com/climate-alert-depletion-of-1-5-c-carbon-budget-anticipated-by-2029-523025df4c89 3 comments climate
- The carbon dioxide budget for stopping the earth heating 1.5C above pre-industrial levels could run out in the next six years, according to a study https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/10/31/climate-change-six-years 32 comments worldnews
- New oilfield in the North Sea would blow the UK’s carbon budget | Climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/01/new-oilfield-in-the-north-sea-would-blow-the-uks-carbon-budget 4 comments climate
- Jeremy Hunt’s budget to announce £20bn funding to cut carbon emissions https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/10/jeremy-hunt-budget-cut-carbon-emissions-clean-energy-small-nuclear-reactors 2 comments climate
- Global Carbon Budget 2022 | The remaining carbon budget for a 50 % likelihood to limit global warming to 1.5, 1.7, and 2C has, respectively, reduced to 105 GtC, 200 GtC, and 335 GtC from the beginning of 2023, equivalent to 9, 18, and 30 years, assuming 2022 emissions levels. https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/4811/2022/ 12 comments science
- Earth has 11 years to avoid the worst scenarios Carbon dioxide emissions are rebounding after a dip in 2020, and researchers say that at the current rate, Earth's "carbon budget" will be exhausted in roughly 11 years. https://twitter.com/santosh_arron/status/1571088684157661186?s=20&t=kT_VsvMPUrMmwrAxo4494Q 3 comments india
- Wildfires in US, Canadian boreal forests could release sizable amount of remaining global carbon budget https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/950604 8 comments science
- New budget deal marks the biggest climate investment in U.S. history- The $555 billion focused on cutting carbon emissions includes tax credits for businesses and consumers, but omits a key plan targeting the U.S. power sector. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/10/28/climate-biden-build-back-better/?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20211029&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily 20 comments politics
- Opposition from a single moderate Democrat to corporate and income tax rate increases has revived efforts in the Senate to draft a tax on carbon dioxide pollution as a way to pay for the Democrats’ proposed $3.5 trillion budget bill https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/carbon-tax-democrats.html 344 comments economics
- Sinema’s Income Tax Stance Has Democrats Looking Anew at a Carbon Tax | With Arizona’s iconoclastic senator cool to increased tax rates, the Senate Finance Committee is drafting a carbon dioxide fee to fund a budget bill. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/us/politics/carbon-tax-democrats.html 8 comments climate
- In the Democrats’ Budget Package, a Billion Tons of Carbon Cuts at Stake https://insideclimatenews.org/news/17092021/democrats-budget-climate-bill-joe-manchin/ 6 comments politics
- Carbon pricing back in the mix for US budget reconciliation bill https://www.eenews.net/articles/carbon-pricing-back-in-the-mix-for-reconciliation/ 4 comments climate
- Americans sent 50K+ messages to Senators over the last 3 weeks to ask for serious climate policy | Now, the House of Representatives is starting discussions about climate change | Write and call your rep to ask that a price on carbon be included in this year's budget reconciliation! https://cclusa.org/house2 49 comments climate
- The science has never been clearer: We know what's causing climate change. That means we know what to do about it | Contact your senators and ask them to include a price on carbon in the budget reconciliation package! [USA] https://cclusa.org/senate 9 comments environment
- The science has never been clearer: We know what's causing climate change. That means we know what to do about it | Contact your senators and ask them to include a price on carbon in the budget reconciliation package! [USA] https://cclusa.org/senate 61 comments climate
- Report: Circular economy could deliver 80% of UK's next carbon budget https://www.edie.net/news/5/Report--Circular-economy-could-deliver-80--of-UK-s-next-carbon-budget/ 6 comments europe
- Senate Democrats unveil details of $3.5 trillion budget deal: Create 80% clean electricity and 50% economy-wide carbon emissions by 2030. Clean energy & vehicle tax incentives. The resolution will also propose a new methane reduction and polluter import fees (aka carbon tariff) https://www.axios.com/senate-democrats-budget-reconciliation-1f959ad2-d804-4e2e-9eda-d1f840387301.html 12 comments climate
- 'Greener’ COVID-19 recovery plans are needed to reach the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals. Even if the growing list of countries committing to 2050 net-zero emissions targets reached their goals, we would still deplete the 1.5C remaining carbon budget more than a decade too soon. https://theconversation.com/new-research-suggests-1-5c-climate-target-will-be-out-of-reach-without-greener-covid-19-recovery-plans-151527 3 comments science
- The case for a border carbon tax as an own resource to the EU budget https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/opinion/the-case-for-a-border-carbon-tax-as-an-own-resource-to-the-eu-budget/ 17 comments europe
- Fossil fuel output to greatly exceed Paris climate pledges: Production of coal, oil and gas is set to outstrip carbon budgets required to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius https://www.dw.com/en/fossil-fuel-output-to-greatly-exceed-paris-climate-pledges/a-51328077 7 comments worldnews
- Climate scientists slam easyJet for creating shortest mainland UK flight: ‘Pointless waste of carbon’ - ‘One of the great challenges of this century will be how we allocate that limited carbon budget amongst vitally important industries’ https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/easyjet-flight-birmingham-edinburgh-flying-environment-carbon-a9110926.html 3 comments worldnews
- Federal carbon plan will cost the rich and benefit the poor, Parliamentary Budget Officer says https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/04/25/federal-carbon-plan-will-cost-the-rich-and-benefit-the-poor-parliamentary-budget-officer-says.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=800pm&utm_campaign_id=politics_canada&utm_content=federalcarbonplanwillcosttherich&fbclid=iwar116itwwlxhzb2ll-uoqnx0ii7s58nmyze5fw2vet6mqdfusekfufblv_w 35 comments worldnews
- Climate crisis: today’s children face lives with tiny carbon footprints | Fast, deep cuts in global emissions from energy, transport & food are needed to keep temperature rises in check & an analysis has shown this means the new generation will have lifetime carbon budgets almost 90% lower than 1950 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/10/climate-crisis-todays-children-face-lives-with-tiny-carbon-footprints 10 comments worldnews
- Government spending foreign aid money to promote fracking in China: ‘It is a flagrant misuse of the UK’s aid budget to fund the fossil fuel industry overseas when the priority must be shifting to low carbon energy and boosting climate resilience’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fracking-china-foreign-aid-shale-gas-climate-change-environment-dfid-funding-promoting-a8637601.html 37 comments worldnews
- Carbon budgets for 1.5 and 2 °C targets lowered by natural wetland and permafrost feedbacks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0174-9 6 comments science
- Carbon budget for limiting the Earth’s warming to 1.5 degrees C recalculated - suggesting that humanity could have considerably more time than previously thought to avoid a “dangerous” level of global warming. http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo3031.html?foxtrotcallback=true 11 comments science
- Fossil fuel emissions have stalled, according to the Global Carbon Budget of 2016 http://theconversation.com/fossil-fuel-emissions-have-stalled-global-carbon-budget-2016-68568 4 comments worldnews
- Our carbon budget just became significantly smaller as new research finds a significant positive feedback to future climate warming. Warming triggers more intense El Niños, triggering more intense peat bog fires across Equatorial Asia releasing more stored carbon, which increases warming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/10/03/there-are-our-carbon-emissions-and-then-there-are-the-ones-the-earth-will-punish-us-with/?utm_term=.b619c1245e23 17 comments science
- New research finds that for every 1°C of warming, the Earth’s plants and soils will add CO2 to the atmosphere to the tune of about 20ppm, implying a potentially significant reduction in the available carbon budget for fossil fuel emissions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/jul/29/antarctic-ice-core-study-has-probably-just-made-the-job-of-cutting-fossil-fuel-emissions-even-more-urgent?cmp=share_btn_tw 8 comments science
- Amid North Korean Threat: South Korea will develop a Devastating Graphite Bomb called The Black Out Bomb; Carried by cruise missiles, the bomb explodes above its target, releasing fine carbon filaments which float down in a cloud melting electrical grids.They will develop it on a massive budget. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/south-korea-plans-devastating-blackout-7666543 223 comments worldnews
- The Paris Talks will avoid the idea of a "Carbon Budget" http://nyti.ms/1tda4up 4 comments worldnews
- Tony Abbott has nominated repealing the carbon tax as his greatest achievement as Minister for Women, saying women are “particularly focused on the household budget”. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/politics-news/abbott-repealing-carbon-tax-best-thing-i-did-as-minister-for-women/story-fn59nqld-1227164048700 8 comments worldnews
- CBO: Carbon tax chops $1 trillion from deficit. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) floated 103 ways to help cut the deficit Wednesday, and one option takes out a much bigger bite than any other: A carbon tax. http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/190167-cbo-carbon-tax-chops-1-trillion-from-deficit 30 comments politics
- Taxing carbon could break the budget impasse. It doesn't violate the Norquist pledge, and it actually accomplishes something Democrats support. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-13/is-this-the-tax-to-pass-the-grover-norquist-test-.html 4 comments politics
- Here’s a way to make the ENTIRE US carbon neutral - trim 10% from the DOD Budget. http://dontfearthetruth.com/2007/07/26/heres-a-way-to-make-the-entire-us-carbon-neutral-trim-10-from-the-dod-budget/ 6 comments reddit.com
- We’re running out of time: World’s carbon budget is depleting much faster than expected | With current greenhouse gas emissions, the world's carbon budget will be exhausted by 2029, making the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C target increasingly challenging to achieve. https://www.zmescience.com/science/climate-crisis-time-ruinning-out/ 5 comments environment
- New research estimates the world's remaining 1.5C carbon budget: 230-440bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2) from 2020 onwards, or an equivalent of 6-11 years of global emissions at current emissions rates. There is also a 1 in 6 chance that the remaining carbon budget for 1.5C has already been exceeded. https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-refining-the-remaining-1-5c-carbon-budget?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+carbonbrief+%28the+carbon+brief%29 15 comments science