Differential climate impacts for policy-relevant limits to global warming: the case of 1.5 °C and 2 °C

Robust appraisals of climate impacts at different levels of global-mean temperature increase are vital to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The 2015 Paris Agreement includes a two-headed temperature goal: "holding the increase in the global avera...

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Main Authors: C.-F. Schleussner, T. K. Lissner, E. M. Fischer, J. Wohland, M. Perrette, A. Golly, J. Rogelj, K. Childers, J. Schewe, K. Frieler, M. Mengel, W. Hare, M. Schaeffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-04-01
Series:Earth System Dynamics
Online Access:http://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/7/327/2016/esd-7-327-2016.pdf