Jacqueline L Aigner (EDT) Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenarios for Use in Climate Based Response

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This new book presents research scenarios which are designed to stabilize the influence of a suite of greenhouse gases. This research was conducted using computer-based research tools known as integrated assessment models. Three modeling groups each independently developed a reference scenario, in which all climate policies were assumed to expire in 2012, and then developed four stabilization scenarios as departures from their respective reference scenarios. The scenarios in this book are not predictions or best-judgment forecasts from the modeling groups; rather they constitute new research intended to advance understanding of the forces that lead to GHG emissions and ways in which to stabilize GHG concentrations and radiative forcing.