Stephen H. Schneider, Nature, 458, The worst-case scenario -- CO2 at 1,000 ppm

Nature, 458, 1104-1105 (30 April 2009), published online 29 April 2009;
doi: 10.1038/4581104a.

The worst-case scenario

Stephen H. Schneider¹

1. Stephen H. Schneider is professor of interdisciplinary environmental studies and biology, and a senior fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A. e-mail: shs@stanford.edu

Stephen Schneider explores what a world with 1,000 parts per million of CO₂ in its atmosphere might look like.

Abstract

Thinking about worst-case scenarios is nothing new — climate scientists have been doing it for more than 20 years. In 1988, after intense heat waves baked the eastern and central United States, Robert Watson, later to chair the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and I briefed Bill Bradley, the Democrat senator for New Jersey, on the risks of disproportionate surprises from rapid, major climate change.

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Link to the abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/4581104a.html