2024-10-01 カナダ・コンコーディア大学
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2024/10/01/climate-scientists-express-their-views-on-possible-future-climate-scenarios-in-a-new-study.html
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01661-8
気候専門家の二酸化炭素排出削減と将来の温暖化に関する認識 Perceptions of carbon dioxide emission reductions and future warming among climate experts
Seth Wynes,Steven J. Davis,Mitchell Dickau,Susan Ly,Edward Maibach,Joeri Rogelj,Kirsten Zickfeld & H. Damon Matthews
Nature Earth Environment Published:12 September 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01661-8
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) employs emission scenarios to explore a range of future climate outcomes but refrains from assigning probabilities to individual scenarios. However, IPCC authors have their own views on the likelihood of different climate outcomes, which are valuable to understand because authors possess both expert insight and considerable influence. Here we report the results of a survey of 211 IPCC authors about the likelihood of four key climate outcomes. We found that most authors are skeptical that warming will be limited to the Paris targets of well below 2 °C, but are more optimistic that net zero CO2 emissions will be reached during the second half of this century. When asked about the beliefs of their peers, author responses showed strong correlations between personal and peer beliefs, suggesting that participants with extreme beliefs perceive their own estimates as closer to the community average than they actually are.
