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Politics is biggest factor in climate uncertainty
Delaying action on emissions will increase costs and reduce chances of limiting temperature increase.
Joeri Rogelj, a climate-policy analyst at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and his colleagues assessed the relative importance of four major sources of uncertainty in limiting the rise in global average temperatures. These were political uncertainty regarding when a coordinated global climate policy might be achieved; scientific uncertainty over how much the Earth will warm in response to emissions; social uncertainty about future energy demand; and technological uncertainty regarding the availability of emissions-reduction technologies...
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NatureDOI:doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12138
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Politics is biggest factor in climate uncertainty
Delaying action on emissions will increase costs and reduce chances of limiting temperature increase.
- Zoë Corbyn 02 January 2013
Joeri Rogelj, a climate-policy analyst at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and his colleagues assessed the relative importance of four major sources of uncertainty in limiting the rise in global average temperatures. These were political uncertainty regarding when a coordinated global climate policy might be achieved; scientific uncertainty over how much the Earth will warm in response to emissions; social uncertainty about future energy demand; and technological uncertainty regarding the availability of emissions-reduction technologies...
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NatureDOI:doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12138
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