The following is a brief sampling of reports that also may be downloaded free now, including the important Climate
Stabilization Targets report:
Not exact matches
The National Academy of Sciences, for its part, has convened an expert panel to deliver a verdict on the appropriate «
stabilization targets» for the nation, a
report expected to be delivered by summer 2010.
[Response: Check out the transient vs. equilibrium climate discussion in our National Research Council
report, «Climate
Stabilization Targets» (free from the NAS web site.
The
report of Susan Solomon's National Research Council Committee on
Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations is the place to go to see a collection of impacts that have already been observed and will be amplified as the climate changes in ways that have been quantitatively estimated.
You ought to try reading some of the literature sometime, including the National Research Council
report on climate
stabilization targets, available free for just clicking on the link.
This
report, «Climate
Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia,» provides a fresh degree - by - degree guide to impacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populations crest.
A recent multi-model study coordinated by the Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University (EMF 27) brought together many energy - economic models to assess technology and policy pathways associated with various climate
stabilization targets (e.g., 450, 550 ppm CO2 equivalent or CO2e), partially in support of the Fifth Assessment
Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
July 19: Dr. Stephen Schneider passed away unexpectedly in London • July 17: The Polar Science Center observes anomalous drop in Arctic ice volume • July 16: The National Academy of Sciences released a summary
report on climate
stabilization targets pertaining to emissions, concentrations, and impacts over decades to millennia.
See the recent NAS 2011
report on «Climate
Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations and Impacts over Decades to Millennia» for example.
Last year, James Hansen of GISS and Columbia University said that we may have already exceeded the maximum safe threshold for CO2 in atmosphere — we're presently at approximately 387 parts - per - million (ppm) and Hansen said that we needed to
target 350 ppm as the
stabilization threshold, not 450 - 500 as recommended in the last IPCC assessment
report.
Climate
Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia, a new
report released by the National Research Council (the operational arm of the National Academy of Sciences) on July 16, starkly highlights the long - term global consequences of present - day... Continue reading →
The
report makes clear that «[a] Key assumption is that other countries pursue equivalent actions that are also commensurate with the same
stabilization target» (p. 9).
Read / Purchase the
Report Climate
Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia (2011) Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.
The IPCC has just issued a new summary for policy makers for a forthcoming special
report on renewable energy that appears (indirectly and obliquely) to finally admit that we just do not have the technology necessary to achieve low
targets for the
stabilization of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (e.g., something like 450 ppm).