{"id":4966,"date":"2016-06-09T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2016-06-09T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T16:12:39","slug":"emissions-to-cause-even-more-profound-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/emissions-to-cause-even-more-profound-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Emissions to cause even more profound warming <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4970\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/building-2058_640.jpg\" alt=\"fossil fuel emissions\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/building-2058_640.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/building-2058_640-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Burning all the Earth\u2019s remaining fossil fuels could lead to an average temperature increase of about 8 \u00b0C across the globe\u2014with an increase of 17 \u00b0C in the Arctic\u2014by 2300, say researchers at the University of Victoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using a series of comprehensive Earth system models, researchers simulated long-term warming in response to releasing five trillion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions\u2014roughly the equivalent of the remaining fossil fuel resources on Earth. In an accompanying <em>News &amp; Views<\/em> article, environmental physicist Thomas Fro\u0308licher says the results of the study imply \u201cthat the unregulated exploitation of fossil fuel resources could result in significant, more profound climate change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katarzyna B. Tokarska, Nathan P. Gillett, Andrew J. Weaver, Vivek K. Arora &amp; Michael Eby<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katarzyna B. Tokarska, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, British Columbia<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The climate response to five trillion tonnes of carbon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate3036.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a>, published on May 23, 2016 in <em>Nature.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burning all the Earth\u2019s remaining fossil fuels could lead to an average temperature increase of about 8 \u00b0C across the globe\u2014with an increase of 17 \u00b0C in the Arctic\u2014by 2300, say researchers at the University of Victoria. Using a series of comprehensive Earth system models, researchers simulated long-term warming in response to releasing five trillion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2642,31,2643,2347,2644],"class_list":["post-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canadian-centre-for-climate-modelling-and-analysis","tag-climate-change","tag-environment-and-climate-change-canada","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-university-of-victoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/building-2058_640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1i6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}