Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Transition to a Moist Greenhouse with CO2 and solar forcing

  • Max Popp,
  • Hauke Schmidt,
  • Jochem Marotzke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10627
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Greenhouse-gas forcing has previously been thought to be rather ineffective at destroying the habitability of Earth-like planets. Here, the authors show that CO2is as effective as solar forcing at causing a climate transition to a Moist-Greenhouse regime and thus poses an equal threat to a planet's habitability.