期刊
ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE LETTERS
卷 19, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/asl.821
关键词
black carbon; climate change; global warming; methane; Paris agreement
资金
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [GA01101]
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [GA01101]
Methane and black carbon aerosols have been identified as exerting the two strongest positive radiative forcings after carbon dioxide and therefore drastic reductions in these atmospheric constituents could potentially offer strong leverage in reducing global warming. Using the HadGEM2-ES model, we reduce concentrations of methane and black carbon while holding all other emissions at representative concentration pathway RCP2.6 levels to examine whether we can achieve the target of keeping global-mean temperature rise below 1.5 degrees C relative to the pre-industrial level during the remainder of the 21st century. We find that even total cessation of black carbon aerosol emissions is ineffective in attaining this goal. Reducing methane concentrations at four times the rate assumed in RCP2.6 is able to return warming levels to below 1.5 degrees C by the 2070s but overshoots the target level prior to that. As RCP2.6 represents an optimistic scenario relative to the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, our results highlight the importance of deep and rapid reductions in both CO2 and methane emissions if humanity is serious about attaining the 1.5 degrees C target.
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