The Anthropocene, global change and sleeping giants: where on Earth are we going?
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2006-06-27
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Steffen, Will
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BioMed Central
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The "climate problem" has come to the fore in public policy
debates over the last year or so. The continuing high
temperatures, the spate of intense tropical cyclones and
deepening droughts in some parts of the world have
focused attention on the issue of defining "dangerous climate
change" [1]. This is often conceptualised as an upper
limit to the rise in global mean temperature, for example,
2°C above pre-industrial levels, which in turn leads to a
back calculation of the permissible concentration of CO2
in the atmosphere and then to the trajectories of the corresponding
maximum anthropogenic carbon emissions.
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Carbon Balance and Management 1.3 (2006): 1-2
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