Mitigation choices impact carbon budget size compatible with low temperature goals

Global-mean temperature increase is roughly proportional to cumulative emissions of carbon-dioxide (CO _2 ). Limiting global warming to any level thus implies a finite CO _2 budget. Due to geophysical uncertainties, the size of such budgets can only be expressed in probabilistic terms and is further...

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Main Authors: Joeri Rogelj, Andy Reisinger, David L McCollum, Reto Knutti, Keywan Riahi, Malte Meinshausen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/7/075003