We must keep warming down Denis Meyer/Hans Lucas
Headlines this聽week proclaimed the聽worst-case scenarios for climate change were 鈥渄ebunked鈥 and 鈥渘ot credible鈥. As you might expect, things aren鈥檛 that simple.
The stories were sparked by a study聽by at the University of聽Exeter, UK, and his colleagues, who聽attempted to work out how much聽warming will result from a given聽increase in carbon dioxide levels. Specifically, if we doubled CO2 levels in the atmosphere and waited for the temperature to stabilise, how much would the world warm?
This is known as the equilibrium climate…
