Nature Communications (May 2021)

A small climate-amplifying effect of climate-carbon cycle feedback

  • Xuanze Zhang,
  • Ying-Ping Wang,
  • Peter J. Rayner,
  • Philippe Ciais,
  • Kun Huang,
  • Yiqi Luo,
  • Shilong Piao,
  • Zhonglei Wang,
  • Jianyang Xia,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Xiaogu Zheng,
  • Jing Tian,
  • Yongqiang Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22392-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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How to curb climate change is uncertain, in part because determination of allowable emissions depends on models with low accuracy. Here the authors re-analyze climate-carbon feedbacks and find that CO2 emissions could be 9 ± 7% higher and still meet Paris Agreement goals.