Avoiding Dangerous Climate ChangeHans Joachim Schellnhuber, Wolfgang Cramer, Wolfgang P. Cramer, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Tom Wigley, Gary Yohe Cambridge University Press, 2006 M02 2 - 392 pages The impacts of climate change are already being observed in a variety of sectors and there is greater clarity that these changes are being caused by human activities, mainly through release of greenhouse gases. In 2005 the UK Government hosted the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change conference to take an in-depth look at the scientific issues associated with climate change. This volume presents findings from the leading international scientists that attended the conference. The topics addressed include critical thresholds and key vulnerabilities of the climate system, impacts on human and natural systems, socioeconomic costs and benefits of emissions pathways, and technological options for meeting different stabilisation levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The volume provides invaluable information for researchers in environmental science, climatology, and atmospheric chemistry, policy-makers in governments and environmental organizations, and scientists and engineers in industry. |
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Contents
Perspectives on Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference or How to Operationalize Article 2 of the | 10 |
Impacts of Global Climate Change at Different Annual Mean Global Temperature Increases | 93 |
SECTION III | 133 |
Conditions for SinktoSource Transitions and Runaway Feedbacks from the Land Carbon Cycle | 155 |
Relationship Between Increases in Global Mean Temperature and Impacts on Ecosystems | 177 |
Climate Stabilisation and Impacts of SeaLevel Rise | 195 |
An Australian Perspective | 219 |
The African Experience | 235 |
Risks Associated with Stabilisation Scenarios and Uncertainty in Regional and Global Climate | 317 |
Costs and Technology Role for Different Levels of CO2 Concentration Stabilization | 355 |
Scenarios | 361 |
Carbon Cycle Management with Biotic Fixation and Longterm Sinks | 373 |
Scope for Future CO2 Emission Reductions from Electricity Generation through the Deployment | 379 |
The Technology of Two Degrees | 385 |
Foreword by Rt Hon Tony Blair MP | vii |
SECTION | xv |
SECTION VI | 251 |
Observational Constraints on Climate Sensitivity | 281 |
MultiGas Emission Pathways for Meeting the EU 2C Climate Target | 299 |
SECTION V | xxiii |
SECTION VII | xxvii |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change |
| Editors | Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Wolfgang Cramer, Wolfgang P. Cramer, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Tom Wigley, Gary Yohe |
| Contributors | International Symposium on Stabilisation of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change. 2005, Exeter, Great Britain. Dept. for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Tony Blair, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Rajendra Pachauri |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0521864712, 9780521864718 |
| Length | 392 pages |
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