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Using sea-level rise to define climate targets

Climate change Institute Publication

One major consequence of global warming is the rising sea level. A study conducted at Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence for climate research CLICCS by Dr Chao Li, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and his colleagues now shows:

Photo: Half of mankind is living next to the coast. Sea level rise can become a risk.

Photo: Half of mankind is living next to the coast. Sea level rise can become a risk. Credit: J. Zapata / unsplash

if we assume that sea-level rise is the most critical effect of climate change, then it is not only more sensible, but also less expensive, to set a maximum limit for sea-level rise that corresponds to the two-degree target, rather than a temperature-based target.

Please find here the original text by Universität Hamburg.

Original publication:

Li, C., Held, H., Hokamp, S. and J. Marotzke (2019) Optimal temperature overshoot profile found by limiting global sea-level rise as a lower-cost climate target; Science Advances, 6 (2), doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw9490

Contact:

Dr. Chao Li
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Cluster of Excellence – CLICCS, Universität Hamburg
Phone: +49 (0) 40 41173 458
Email: chao.li@we dont want spammpimet.mpg.de
 

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