Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1165-2023
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ESD Ideas: Arctic amplification's contribution to breaches of the Paris Agreement

Alistair Duffey, Robbie Mallett, Peter J. Irvine, Michel Tsamados, and Julienne Stroeve

Data sets

An Updated Assessment of Near-Surface Temperature Change From 1850: The HadCRUT5 Data Set (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcrut5/) C. P. Morice, J. J. Kennedy, N. A. Rayner, J. P. Winn, E. Hogan, R. E. Killick, R. J. H. Dunn, T. J. Osborn, P. D. Jones, and I. R. Simpson https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032361

Model code and software

alistairduffey/AA_contrib_to_GMST: v1.1 (v1.1) Alistair Duffey and Robbie Mallett https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8386907

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This work links two very actual scientific topics, which are also highly relevant for public understanding of climate change. First, timelines to crossing the Paris Agreement thresholds under future emissions scenarios; second, the rapid warming and profound changes under way in the Arctic region.
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The Arctic is warming several times faster than the rest of the planet. Here, we use climate model projections to quantify for the first time how this faster warming in the Arctic impacts the timing of crossing the 1.5 °C and 2 °C thresholds defined in the Paris Agreement. We show that under plausible emissions scenarios that fail to meet the Paris 1.5 °C target, a hypothetical world without faster warming in the Arctic would breach that 1.5 °C target around 5 years later.
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