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"Humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming at a
rate unprecedented in at least the past 2,000 years. Rapid global warming has
been accompanied by increases in the frequency and intensity of heat extremes
over most land regions in the past 70 years.
While human activities cause emissions of a number of greenhouse gases, carbon
dioxide (CO₂) stands out as the leading culprit. This is because of its
relatively long atmospheric lifetime and because human activities cause much
higher emissions of CO₂ than other greenhouse gases.
To avoid reaching unsafe global temperatures, climate scientists have concluded
we can’t prevent continued global warming without reaching a state of net zero
CO₂ emissions.
But how might climate extremes change after net zero CO₂? There is limited
research on this. Our new study, published in
Environmental Research Letters,
uses a collection of models to address this gap. We found temperatures would
respond very differently in various parts of the world, and heat extremes might
continue to disproportionately affect vulnerable populations."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
