Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 C

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Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 C [1]

The politically defined threshold of dangerous climate change is an increase of 2 degrees Celsius in the mean global temperature.

Publication Date:

30/04/2009

Author(s): Malte Meinshausen [2], Nicolai Meinshausen [3], William Hare & et al [4]

Source: Nature [5]

Vol:

458

Issue:

7242

pp:

1158

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