World is on track for four degree temperature increase by century's end

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ased on current greenhouse gas emissions, the world is on track for 4C warming by 2100 - well beyond the internationally agreed guardrail of 2C.

To keep warming below 2C, we need to either reduce our emissions, or take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Two papers published today investigate our ability to limit global warming and reverse the impacts of climate change. The first, published in Nature Communications, shows that to limit warming below 2C we will have to remove some carbon from the atmosphere, no matter how strongly we reduce emissions.

The second, in Nature Climate Change, shows that even if we can remove enough CO2 to keep warming below 2C, it would not restore the oceans to the state they were in before we began altering the atmosphere.

Read the story on The Conversation by Senior Research Scientist, Marine and Atmospheric Research at CSIRO, Richard Matear, and Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship at CSIRO, Andrew Lenton  - “Reducing emissions alone won’t stop climate change: new research”.