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His models have transformed our understanding of climate change,
revealing a complex dynamical system with carbon at its centre,
cycling between the atmosphere,
oceans and the land to directly influence the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
He's director of the Global Carbon Budget,
which estimates the remaining amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted before we breach our global climate targets.
Pierre Friedlingstein, welcome to The Life Scientific.
Thank you.
Now Pierre, as I understand it,
this remaining global carbon budget that I just mentioned is the additional amount of carbon dioxide that we can afford to emit into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels,
from deforestation, while limiting global warming to a specific temperature target.