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Title:
Warming World Impacts by Degree
Series Title:
Climate Stabilization Targets Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia
Creator:
National Research Council
Publisher:
The National Academies
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English

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Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch during which human activities will largely determine the evolution of the Earth’s climate. 2 Because carbon dioxide is long-lived in the atmosphere, increases in this key gas can effectively lock the Earth and many future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could be severe. 3 Therefore, emission reduction choices made today matter in determining impacts that will be experienced not just over the next few decades, but also into the coming centuries and millennia. 4 Policy choices can be informed by recent advances in climate science that show the relationships among increasing carbon dioxide, global warming, related physical changes, and resulting impacts. These impacts include changes in streamflow, wildfires, crop productivity, extreme hot summers, and sea-level rise, along with associated risks and vulnerabilities.

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