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Commentary
Nature 452, 531-532 (3 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452531a; Published online 2 April 2008
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Dangerous assumptions
Roger Pielke, Jr1, Tom Wigley2 & Christopher Green3
- Roger Pielke Jr is in the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0488, USA.
- Tom Wigley is in the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA.
- Christopher Green is in the Department of Economics, McGill University, Montreal H3A 2T7, Canada.
Abstract
How big is the energy challenge of climate change? The technological advances needed to stabilize carbon-dioxide emissions may be greater than we think, argue Roger Pielke Jr, Tom Wigley and Christopher Green.
The United Nations Climate Conference in Bali in 2007 set the world on a two-year path to negotiate a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Yet not even the most rosy-eyed delegate could fail to recognize that stabilizing atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations is an enormous undertaking.
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