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Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia (Climate Change) by National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia (Climate Change) about?

<p>Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate. Because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe. Emissions reductions decisions made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.</p> <p>According to <em>Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia</em>, important policy decisions can be informed by recent advances in climate science that quantify the relationships between increases in carbon dioxide and global warming, related climate changes, and resulting impacts, such as changes in streamflow, wildfires, crop productivity, extreme hot summers, and sea level rise. One way to inform these choices is to consider the projected climate changes and impacts that would occur if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were stabilized at a particular concentration level. The book quantifies the outcomes of different

Author

National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780309208949

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Physics