Like blood-alcohol limit, go over 2C and we're busted.
Notes: Full quote from Bill McKibben —
Think of two degrees Celsius as the legal drinking limit – equivalent to the 0.08 blood-alcohol level below which you might get away with driving home. The 565 gigatons is how many drinks you could have and still stay below that limit – the six beers, say, you might consume in an evening. And the 2,795 gigatons? That's the three 12-packs the fossil-fuel industry has on the table, already opened and ready to pour.
To stay below the 2C limit, four-fifths of the worlds fossil fuel reserves must remain unused. They are stranded assets.
Source: Rolling Stone
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To stay below the blood-alcohol limit, we should drink no more than six standard drinks. To keep world temperature increase below 2C we must consume no more than 565 gigatons of fossil fuel. That is only one-fifth of known fossil fuel reserves. Bill McKibben.
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