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Near-term acceleration in the rate of temperature change

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  • Steven J. Smith

    (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500, College Park)

  • James Edmonds

    (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500, College Park)

  • Corinne A. Hartin

    (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500, College Park)

  • Anupriya Mundra

    (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500, College Park)

  • Katherine Calvin

    (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 5825 University Research Court, Suite 3500, College Park)

Abstract

Knowledge of the near-term rate of change is needed for adaptation. The rate at which climate change is occurring, over 40-year periods, is found to be unprecedented in the past 1,000 years. Regionally, Europe, North America and the Arctic are above the global average.

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  • Steven J. Smith & James Edmonds & Corinne A. Hartin & Anupriya Mundra & Katherine Calvin, 2015. "Near-term acceleration in the rate of temperature change," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 5(4), pages 333-336, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:5:y:2015:i:4:d:10.1038_nclimate2552
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2552
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    1. Yann Chavaillaz & Sylvie Joussaume & Amaury Dehecq & Pascale Braconnot & Robert Vautard, 2016. "Investigating the pace of temperature change and its implications over the twenty-first century," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 137(1), pages 187-200, July.
    2. Thiele, Jan C. & Nuske, Robert S. & Ahrends, Bernd & Panferov, Oleg & Albert, Matthias & Staupendahl, Kai & Junghans, Udo & Jansen, Martin & Saborowski, Joachim, 2017. "Climate change impact assessment—A simulation experiment with Norway spruce for a forest district in Central Europe," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 346(C), pages 30-47.
    3. Rau, Greg H. & Baird, Jim R., 2018. "Negative-CO2-emissions ocean thermal energy conversion," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 265-272.
    4. Karen A. McKinnon & Andrew Poppick, 2020. "Estimating Changes in the Observed Relationship Between Humidity and Temperature Using Noncrossing Quantile Smoothing Splines," Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, Springer;The International Biometric Society;American Statistical Association, vol. 25(3), pages 292-314, September.
    5. Ran Duan & Adam Zwickle & Bruno Takahashi, 2017. "A construal-level perspective of climate change images in US newspapers," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 142(3), pages 345-360, June.
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    7. Barry W. Brook & Tom Blees & Tom M. L. Wigley & Sanghyun Hong, 2018. "Silver Buckshot or Bullet: Is a Future “Energy Mix” Necessary?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-14, January.

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