A scientific critique of the two-degree climate change target

Rate and velocity of climate change caused by cumulative carbon emissions

(2015) Anna LoPresti et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Assessing carbon lock-in

(2015) Peter Erickson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Improved pattern scaling approaches for the use in climate impact studies

(2015) Nadja Herger et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes

(2015) E. M. Fischer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Energy system transformations for limiting end-of-century warming to below 1.5 °C

(2015) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Pattern scaling: Its strengths and limitations, and an update on the latest model simulations

(2014) Claudia Tebaldi et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Maximum warming occurs about one decade after a carbon dioxide emission

(2014) Katharine L Ricke et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Half of the world’s population experience robust changes in the water cycle for a 2 °C warmer world

(2014) Jan Sedláček et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Models agree on forced response pattern of precipitation and temperature extremes

(2014) E. M. Fischer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Climate policy: Ditch the 2 °C warming goal

(2014) David G. Victor et al.   NATURE

Persistent growth of CO2 emissions and implications for reaching climate targets

(2014) P. Friedlingstein et al.   Nature Geoscience

Renegotiating the global climate stabilization target

(2014) Oliver Geden et al.   Nature Climate Change

Sharing a quota on cumulative carbon emissions

(2014) Michael R. Raupach et al.   Nature Climate Change

Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation

(2013) Joeri Rogelj et al.   NATURE

Allowable carbon emissions lowered by multiple climate targets

(2013) Marco Steinacher et al.   NATURE

Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide

(2013) J. Hansen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Irreversible Does Not Mean Unavoidable

(2013) H. D. Matthews et al.   SCIENCE

The Reversibility of Sea Level Rise

(2012) N. Bouttes et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

September Arctic sea ice predicted to disappear near 2°C global warming above present

(2012) Irina Mahlstein et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Significant contribution to climate warming from the permafrost carbon feedback

(2012) Andrew H. MacDougall et al.   Nature Geoscience

Communication of the role of natural variability in future North American climate

(2012) Clara Deser et al.   Nature Climate Change

The polarizing impact of science literacy and numeracy on perceived climate change risks

(2012) Dan M. Kahan et al.   Nature Climate Change

2020 emissions levels required to limit warming to below 2 °C

(2012) Joeri Rogelj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Robustness and uncertainties in the new CMIP5 climate model projections

(2012) Reto Knutti et al.   Nature Climate Change

Keep it complex

(2010) Andy Stirling   NATURE

Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from Existing Energy Infrastructure

(2010) Steven J. Davis et al.   SCIENCE

History of the 2° C climate target

(2010) Samuel Randalls   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Defining dangerous anthropogenic interference

(2009) M. E. Mann   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions

(2009) Susan Solomon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The equilibrium sensitivity of the Earth's temperature to radiation changes

(2008) Reto Knutti et al.   Nature Geoscience