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SUBMITTER: Hansen J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3849278 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hansen James J Kharecha Pushker P Sato Makiko M Masson-Delmotte Valerie V Ackerman Frank F Beerling David J DJ Hearty Paul J PJ Hoegh-Guldberg Ove O Hsu Shi-Ling SL Parmesan Camille C Rockstrom Johan J Rohling Eelco J EJ Sachs Jeffrey J Smith Pete P Steffen Konrad K Van Susteren Lise L von Schuckmann Karina K Zachos James C JC
PloS one 20131203 12
We assess climate impacts of global warming using ongoing observations and paleoclimate data. We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature. A cumulative industrial-era limit of ∼500 GtC fossil fuel emissions and 100 GtC storage in the biosphere and soil would ...[more]