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Comment
. 2022 Oct 18;119(42):e2214347119.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2214347119. Epub 2022 Oct 10.

Catastrophic climate risks should be neither understated nor overstated

Matthew G Burgess  1   2   3 , Roger Pielke Jr  2 , Justin Ritchie  4
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Catastrophic climate risks should be neither understated nor overstated

Matthew G Burgess et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
(A) Scenario mentions in the IPCC’s Working Group II (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability) contributions to the Fifth (AR5) and Sixth (AR6) Assessment Reports (data from refs. and 3). (B) Fossil-fuel-and-industry (FFI) CO2 emissions in the seven marker scenarios from AR6, compared to the IEA’s Stated Polices and Announced Pledges scenarios, and to the ranges of all AR6 scenarios having similar projected FFI CO2 emissions growth rates from 2005 to 2050 (data from refs. and , calculated using the methods of ref. 4).
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  • Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios.
    Kemp L, Xu C, Depledge J, Ebi KL, Gibbins G, Kohler TA, Rockström J, Scheffer M, Schellnhuber HJ, Steffen W, Lenton TM. Kemp L, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Aug 23;119(34):e2108146119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2108146119. Epub 2022 Aug 1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022. PMID: 35914185 Free PMC article.

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