Countries across the world are committing, on one timescale or another – to net zero carbon emissions. That’s the direction of travel. What happens when we get there? It’s been a matter of some dispute in recent years – so let’s investigate. (references for this video given below)
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References
Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
https://scheerpost.com/2021/03/02/hedges-the-age-of-social-murder/
Warming already baked in will blow past climate goals
https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-pollution-3f226aed9c58e36c69e7342b104d48bf
Greater committed warming after accounting for the pattern effect
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00955-x
Is it too late to prevent climate change?
https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/16/is-it-too-late-to-prevent-climate-change/
Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO2, MacDougall et al 2020
https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/17/2987/2020/
The Zero Emissions Commitment Model Intercomparison Project (ZECMIP) contribution to C4MIP: quantifying committed climate changes following zero carbon emissions, Jones et al 2019
https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/12/4375/2019/
An earth system model shows self-sustained thawing of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75481-z
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?, Zeke Hausfather
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-stop-as-soon-as-net-zero-emissions-are-reached/
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