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Core Concept: Popular integrated assessment climate policy models have key caveats - Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences  (Feb 03, 2021) |
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Feb 03, 2021 · The headlines are bleak: Regions of our planet becoming uninhabitably hot (1), crippling droughts, wildfires, and floods, collapsing ecosystems. Extreme climate change, models suggest, is likely if nations continue to increase emissions at close to their current rate, with global average temperature rises of at least 1.1 to 3.1 °C by 2100. Integrated assessment models have long made dire predictions about climate change and its myriad impacts. Some researchers would like to see more transparency in how these models are devised. Image credit: (Clockwise from Top Left) Shutterstock/ccpixx photography, Zenobillis, Witsawat.S, and Christian Roberts-Olsen. Such warming is ... Read more ... |
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