Consequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change
Most of the policy debate surrounding the actions needed to mitigate and adapt to anthropogenic climate change has been framed by observations of the past 150 years and climate and sea-level projections for the twenty-first century. The focus on this 250-year window, however, obscures some of the mo...
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| author | Clark, P Shakun, J Marcott, S Mix, A Eby, M Kulp, S Levermann, A Milne, G Pfister, P Santer, B Schrag, D Solomon, S Stocker, T Strauss, B Weaver, A Winkelmann, R Archer, D Bard, E Goldner, A Lambeck, K Pierrehumbert, R Plattner, G |
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| description | Most of the policy debate surrounding the actions needed to mitigate and adapt to anthropogenic climate change has been framed by observations of the past 150 years and climate and sea-level projections for the twenty-first century. The focus on this 250-year window, however, obscures some of the most profound problems associated with climate change. Here, we argue that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human-caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long-term context, including the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next 10 millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist. This long-term perspective illustrates that policy decisions made in the next few years to decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems, and human societies — not just for this century, but for the next ten millennia and beyond. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8e4b3b8a-7258-495a-af63-2fde7b06f3b12022-03-26T22:56:46ZConsequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level changeJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8e4b3b8a-7258-495a-af63-2fde7b06f3b1Symplectic Elements at OxfordNature Publishing Group2016Clark, PShakun, JMarcott, SMix, AEby, MKulp, SLevermann, AMilne, GPfister, PSanter, BSchrag, DSolomon, SStocker, TStrauss, BWeaver, AWinkelmann, RArcher, DBard, EGoldner, ALambeck, KPierrehumbert, RPlattner, GMost of the policy debate surrounding the actions needed to mitigate and adapt to anthropogenic climate change has been framed by observations of the past 150 years and climate and sea-level projections for the twenty-first century. The focus on this 250-year window, however, obscures some of the most profound problems associated with climate change. Here, we argue that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human-caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long-term context, including the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next 10 millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist. This long-term perspective illustrates that policy decisions made in the next few years to decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems, and human societies — not just for this century, but for the next ten millennia and beyond. |
| spellingShingle | Clark, P Shakun, J Marcott, S Mix, A Eby, M Kulp, S Levermann, A Milne, G Pfister, P Santer, B Schrag, D Solomon, S Stocker, T Strauss, B Weaver, A Winkelmann, R Archer, D Bard, E Goldner, A Lambeck, K Pierrehumbert, R Plattner, G Consequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change |
| title | Consequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change |
| title_full | Consequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change |
| title_fullStr | Consequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Consequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change |
| title_short | Consequences of 21st century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change |
| title_sort | consequences of 21st century policy for multi millennial climate and sea level change |
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