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Committed warming inferred from observations

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  • Thorsten Mauritsen

    (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)

  • Robert Pincus

    (University of Colorado
    NOAA Earth System Research Lab)

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Even if fossil-fuel emissions were to cease immediately, continued anthropogenic warming is expected. Here, observation-based estimates indicate there is a 13% risk that committed warming already exceeds the 1.5 K Paris target.

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  • Thorsten Mauritsen & Robert Pincus, 2017. "Committed warming inferred from observations," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 7(9), pages 652-655, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:7:y:2017:i:9:d:10.1038_nclimate3357
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3357
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