Questions? Call 800-624-6242 About | Ordering | New Menu | Items in cart [0] SEARCH

PAPERBACK price:$47.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF Report Brief PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles America's Climate Choices Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change Other Related Titles Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia (2011) Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix A: Statement of Task." Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011. Please select a format: Page 269   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendixes Appendix A Statement of Task The stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and the avoidance of serious or irreversible impacts on earth’s climate system are a matter of critical concern in both scientific and policy arenas. Using the most current science available, this study will evaluate the implications of different atmospheric concentration target levels and explain the uncertainties inherent in the analyses to assist policy makers as they make decisions about stabilization target levels for atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. This study will: Evaluate a range of greenhouse gas stabilization targets and describe the types and scales of impacts likely associated with different ranges, including discussion of the associated uncertainties, timescale of impacts, and potential serious or irreversible impacts.1 This study will focus on evaluating the implications of a range of GHG stabilization targets, but it will not involve the committee’s assessment of what stabilization targets are technically feasible nor their normative judgment on what targets are most appropriate. 1 This study will consider cumulative emissions of the “basket” of gases considered in the Kyoto protocol (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6). Any particular overall stabilization target could include varying combinations of emissions targets for the different gases. Page 269 Front Matter (R1-R12) Section I (1-2) Synopsis (3-10) Summary (11-28) Overview of Climate Changes and Illustrative Impacts (29-46) Section II (47-48) 1 Introduction (49-58) 2 Emissions, Concentrations, and Related Factors (59-82) 3 Global Mean Temperature Responses (83-104) 4 Physical Climate Change in the 21st Century (105-158) 5 Impacts in the Next Few Decades and Coming Centuries (159-216) 6 Beyond the Next Few Centuries (217-234) References (235-268) Appendix A: Statement of Task (269-270) Appendix B: Committee Membership (271-278) Appendix C: Methods (279-282) Appendix D: Acronym List (283-286)

Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.

Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines.

OCR for page 269
Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia Appendixes Appendix A Statement of Task The stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations and the avoidance of serious or irreversible impacts on earth’s climate system are a matter of critical concern in both scientific and policy arenas. Using the most current science available, this study will evaluate the implications of different atmospheric concentration target levels and explain the uncertainties inherent in the analyses to assist policy makers as they make decisions about stabilization target levels for atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. This study will: Evaluate a range of greenhouse gas stabilization targets and describe the types and scales of impacts likely associated with different ranges, including discussion of the associated uncertainties, timescale of impacts, and potential serious or irreversible impacts.1 This study will focus on evaluating the implications of a range of GHG stabilization targets, but it will not involve the committee’s assessment of what stabilization targets are technically feasible nor their normative judgment on what targets are most appropriate. 1 This study will consider cumulative emissions of the “basket” of gases considered in the Kyoto protocol (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6). Any particular overall stabilization target could include varying combinations of emissions targets for the different gases.

OCR for page 270
Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia This page intentionally left blank.