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Assessing “dangerous climate change”: Required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature [1]

We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth’s measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today’s young people, future generations, and nature. A cumulative industrial-era limit of ~500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would keep climate close to the Holocene range to which humanity and other species are adapted.

Publication Date: 
03/12/2013
James Hansen [2], Pushker Kharecha [3], Makiko Sato & et al [4]
PLoS ONE [5]
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Tags:
Climate Change [6], Climate Impacts [7], Fossil Fuels [8], Climate Science [9], Coal [10], Oceans and Seas [11], Carbon Dioxide [12], Antarctica [13], Sea Level Rise [14], Biodiversity [15], Corals [16], Health Effects [17], Extreme Weather Events [18]

Technology Partners: MimirTech

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