[Vision2020] The National Academies Press: Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia (2011)

[Ted Moffett]

Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

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*The responsibility to future generations is rather imposing, is it not?*

*First sentence below from text referenced from website:*

*"Emission reductions decisions made today matter in determining impacts
experienced not just over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries
and millennia."*

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over
Decades to Millennia | The National Academies Press (nap.edu)
<https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12877/climate-stabilization-targets-emissions-concentrations-and-impacts-over-decades-to>

Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered
in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution
of Earth's climate. Because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is long lived,
it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of
impacts, some of which could become very severe. Emissions reductions
decisions made today matter in determining impacts experienced not just
over the next few decades, but in the coming centuries and millennia.

According to *Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and
Impacts Over Decades to Millennia*, important policy decisions can be
informed by recent advances in climate science that quantify the
relationships between increases in carbon dioxide and global warming,
related climate changes, and resulting impacts, such as changes in
streamflow, wildfires, crop productivity, extreme hot summers, and sea
level rise. One way to inform these choices is to consider the projected
climate changes and impacts that would occur if greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere were stabilized at a particular concentration level. The book
quantifies the outcomes of different stabilization targets for greenhouse
gas concentrations using analyses and information drawn from the scientific
literature. Although it does not recommend or justify any particular
stabilization target, it does provide important scientific insights about
the relationships among emissions, greenhouse gas concentrations,
temperatures, and impacts.

*Climate Stabilization Targets* emphasizes the importance of 21st century
choices regarding long-term climate stabilization. It is a useful resource
for scientists, educators and policy makers, among others.
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