{"id":56742,"date":"2021-02-11T19:33:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56742"},"modified":"2021-02-11T19:33:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T00:33:46","slug":"global-warming-could-stop-relatively-quickly-if-emissions-go-to-zero-research-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56742","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly If Emissions Go to Zero, Research Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly If Emissions Go to Zero, Research Suggests<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A firefighter keeps watch as flames advance along the Western Divide Highway during the SQF Complex Fire on Sept. 14, 2020, near Camp Nelson, California.\u00a0 (David McNew\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Parts of the world economy may have been on pause during 2020, dampening greenhouse gas emissions for a while. But that didn\u2019t slow the overall buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which reached its\u00a0highest level<\/a>\u00a0in millions of years.<\/p>\n

If anything, research during the year showed global warming is accelerating. Symptoms of the fever include off-the-charts\u00a0heat waves on land<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0in the oceans<\/a>, and a hyperactive and\u00a0destructive Atlantic hurricane season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And through November, the last year was on pace to end up as either the hottest, or second-hottest on record for the planet, almost 1 degree Celsius above pre-industrial times, inching closer to the 1.5 degree limit set by the\u00a0Paris climate agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are five aspects of climate change that were new and unexpected in 2020:<\/p>\n

Making it Stop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some scientists are punctuating their alarming warnings with hopeful messages because they know that the worst possible outcome is avoidable.<\/p>\n

Recent research shows that stopping greenhouse gas emissions will break the vicious cycle of warming temperatures, melting ice, wildfires and rising sea levels faster than expected just a few years ago.<\/p>\n

There is less warming in the pipeline than we thought, said\u00a0Imperial College<\/a>\u00a0(London) climate scientist\u00a0Joeri Rogelj<\/a>, a lead author of the next major climate assessment from the\u00a0Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is our best understanding that, if we bring down CO2 to net zero, the warming will level off. The climate will stabilize within a decade or two,\u201d he said. \u201cThere will be very little to no additional warming. Our best estimate is zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly If Emissions Go to Zero, Research Suggests A firefighter keeps watch as flames advance along the Western Divide Highway during the SQF Complex Fire on Sept. 14, 2020, near Camp Nelson, California.\u00a0 (David McNew\/Getty Images) Parts of the world economy may have been on pause during 2020, dampening greenhouse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30935,369,1115,30936,30937],"class_list":["post-56742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bob-berwyn","tag-global-warming","tag-greenhouse-gas-emissions","tag-inside-climate-news","tag-kqed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56743,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56742\/revisions\/56743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}