I believe their NEW calculation was for what would happen if the rate of emissions growth continued at the high end of SRES or above, as has been happening this decade (until last year or so). So, this was a quite high CO2 emissions growth rate without any controls, and we should certainly hope that is not our future. Problem is that with SO2 emissions going down to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions headed strongly up, one gets a very strong radiative forcing that would last a very long time, so there would be a lot of warm-up.
Mike On 10/26/09 10:45 AM, "David Schnare" <[email protected]> wrote: > Real data are much more useful as the basis for discussion of policy > alternatives than inaccurate and out of date model outputs. We ARE NOT > looking at +4 degree temperatures increases. > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
