Cumulative carbon emissions, emissions floors and short-term rates of warming: Implications for policy

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1934, 2011, Pages 45-66

  Bowerman, Niel H A ^a   Frame, David J ^a   Huntingford, Chris ^b   Lowe, Jason A ^c   Allen, Myles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cumulative emissions; Emissions floors; Rate of warming

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON EMISSIONS; CUMULATIVE EMISSIONS; EMISSIONS FLOORS; FOOD PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; LONG-TERM POLICIES; MITIGATION POLICIES; PEAK EMISSIONS; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; RATE OF WARMING; STRONG LINK;

INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POLICY; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79251469765     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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