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Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C [1]

Robust appraisals of climate impacts at different levels of global-mean temperature increase are vital to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a two-headed temperature goal: "holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C". Despite the prominence of these two temperature limits, a comprehensive overview of the differences in climate impacts at these levels is still missing. Here we provide an assessment of key impacts of climate change at warming levels of 1.5 °C and 2 °C, including extreme weather events, water availability, agricultural yields, sea-level rise and risk of coral reef loss.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
21/04/2016
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner [3], Tabea K. Lissner [4], Erich M. Fischer & et al [5]
Earth System Dynamics [6]
7
327-351
Tags:
Climate Impacts [7], Global Warming [8], Emission Targets [9], Agriculture [10], Corals [11], Marine Ecosystems [12], Rainfall Pattern [13], South America [14], Asia [15], Africa [16], Sea Level Rise [17], Water Demand [18], Climate Change [19]

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[2] http://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/7/327/2016/
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[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sea-level-rise
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