The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

H. Matthews; N. Gillett; P. Stott; Kirsten Zickfeld

DOI:10.1038/nature08047

Corpus ID: 4423773

The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

@article{Matthews2009ThePO,
  title={The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions},
  author={H. Matthews and N. Gillett and P. Stott and Kirsten Zickfeld},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2009},
  volume={459},
  pages={829-832}
}

H. Matthews, N. Gillett, +1 author Kirsten Zickfeld

Published 2009

Environmental Science, Medicine

Nature

The global temperature response to increasing atmospheric CO2 is often quantified by metrics such as equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response. These approaches, however, do not account for carbon cycle feedbacks and therefore do not fully represent the net response of the Earth system to anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Climate–carbon modelling experiments have shown that: (1) the warming per unit CO2 emitted does not depend on the background CO2 concentration; (2) the total… CONTINUE READING

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