Carbon dioxide emission-intensity in climate projections: Comparing the observational record to socio-economic scenarios.
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SUBMITTER: Pretis F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5625523 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
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Carbon dioxide emission-intensity in climate projections: Comparing the observational record to socio-economic scenarios.
Energy (Oxford, England) 20170901
The wide spread of projected temperature changes in climate projections does not predominately originate from uncertainty across climate models; instead it is the broad range of different global socio-economic scenarios and the implied energy production that results in high uncertainty about future climate change. It is therefore important to assess the observational tracking of these scenarios. Here we compare these socio-economic scenarios created in both 1992 and 2000 against the recent obser ...[more]
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