2006-05-26

Warming Underestimated Due to Feedback Loop

Wageningen University, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Lead author: Marten Scheffer
Where published: Geophysical Research Letters
climate change estimates for the next century may have substantially underestimated the potential magnitude of global warming. They say that actual warming due to human fossil fuel emissions may be 15-to-78 percent higher than warming estimates that do not take into account the feedback mechanism involving carbon dioxide and Earth's temperature.
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