Climate system properties determining the social cost of carbon

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 24032 - 10
• Main Authors: Otto, Alexander, Todd, Benjamin J, Bowerman, Niel, Frame, David J, Allen, Myles R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2013
• Subjects: climate response in policy discourse; climate sensitivity; fat-tailed uncertainty; social cost of carbon; transient climate response

The choice of an appropriate scientific target to guide global mitigation efforts is complicated by uncertainties in the temperature response to greenhouse gas emissions. Much climate policy discourse has been based on the equilibrium global mean temperature increase following a concentration stabil...