The important thing about the cumulative budget is that a ton of carbon is a ton of carbon. If we release it now, it’s a ton we can’t release in 40 years’ time. Every ton we put out is using up a ton of that atmospheric capacity,” Allen told wired.com. “Reducing emissions steadily over 50 years is much cheaper and easier and less traumatic than allowing them to rise for 15 years and then reducing them violently for 35 years.”

I don’t know about the rest of you all, this seems, well, like a kinda reasonable approch to dealing with the issue. Unless you just believe it’s total bunk… which seems a bit like sicking your head in the sand.