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Risk of extreme climate change accelerating | Global Climate Change Information - 29 views

  • “Recent observations confirm that, given high rates of observed emissions, the worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realized. For many key parameters, the climate system is already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which our society and economy have developed and thrived.
  • (http://climatecongress.ku.dk/newsroom/congress_key_messages/)
  • worst case scenario of the IPCC-2007 (AR4) is defined as “scenario A1F1″
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  • A rise of mean global temperatures above 4 or 5 degrees Celsius would shift the atmosphere to pre-glacial/interglacial conditions, which dominated the Earth from about 34 million years ago (end-Eocene) (Zachos et al., 2008)
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