Higher CO2 concentrations increase extreme event risk in a 1.5C world
The Paris Agreement1 aims to ‘pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.’ However, it has been suggested that temperature targets alone are unable to limit the risks associated with anthropogenic emissions2, 3. Here, using an ensemble of model simulations,...
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Nature Publishing Group
2018
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