Uncertainty around that figure means it could be anywhere between 446 and 616 billion tonnes but broadly - speaking, this would mean that about half the carbon budget is already spent.
Not exact matches
The artist's sad - eyed characters, painted as large - scale
figures on the walls or as miniature versions on his found objects, voice the burden of deep existential
uncertainty in a culture organized
around economic and ethnic inequality.
When
uncertainty is minimal (left-most blue data point), the expected budget is
around 1000 GtC, which is precisely the value that in the earlier
figure gave us 2 °C peak warming — as it should be because we are examining budgets to limit warming to 2 °C.