Past emissions have already set into motion global warming in excess of 2 degrees Celsius, report researchers.
The planet is committed to global warming in excess of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) just from greenhouse gases that have already been added to the atmosphere, according to new research by scientists from Texas A&M University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Nanjing University,
The finding appears in
The team used observations and climate model simulations to re-evaluate how much warming is already “in the pipeline” from past emissions. Their estimate is higher than previous estimates because it accounts for changes in the geographic pattern of surface warming.