Climate stabilization targets [electronic resource] : emissions, concentrations, and impacts over decades to millennia / Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.

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"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 i...

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Corporate Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2011.
Subjects:
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Greenhouse gas mitigation.
Climate change mitigation.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2011 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
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Variant Title:
Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: SECTION I
  • Synopsis
  • Summary
  • Overview of Climate Change and Illustrative Impacts
  • SECTION II
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. The Foci of This Report: Climate Changes and Implications for a Range of Alternative Future Worlds
  • 1.2. Attribution
  • 2. Emissions, Concentrations, and Related Factors
  • 2.1. Contribution of Different Chemicals to CO2-Equivalent Levels and Climate Changes
  • 2.2. Information from Scenarios
  • 2.3. Short-lived Radiative Forcing Agents
  • 2.4. Carbon Cycle
  • 3. Global Mean Temperature Responses
  • 3.1. Overview of Timescales and Climate Sensitivity
  • 3.2. Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
  • 3.3. Transient Climate Response and Sensitivity
  • 3.4. Cumulative Carbon
  • 4. Physical Climate Change in the 21st Century.
  • 4.1. Regional Patterns of Warming and Related Factors
  • 4.2. Precipitation Response
  • 4.3. Hurricanes
  • 4.4. Circulation and Related Factors
  • 4.5. Temperature Extremes
  • 4.6. Precipitation Extremes
  • 4.7. Sea Ice, Snow, and Related Factors
  • 4.8. Sea Level Rise (inc. ice sheets and glaciers)
  • 4.9. Ocean Acidification
  • 5. Impacts In the Next Few Decades and Coming Centuries
  • 5.1. Food Production, Prices, and Hunger
  • 5.2. Coastal Erosion and Flooding
  • 5.3. Streamflow
  • 5.4. Fire
  • 5.5. Infrastructure
  • 5.6. Health
  • 5.7. Ecology and Ecosystems
  • 5.8. Biological Ocean
  • 5.9. Illustrative Additional Factors
  • 6. Beyond the Next Few Centuries
  • 6.1. Long-term Feedbacks and Earth System Sensitivity
  • 6.2. Long-term Societal and Environmental Issues
  • REFERENCES
  • APPENDIXES
  • A. Statement of Task
  • B. Committee Membership
  • C. Methods.