Is the climate response to CO2emissions path dependent?

Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions

(2011) Nathan P. Gillett et al.   Nature Geoscience

Reversible and irreversible impacts of greenhouse gas emissions in multi-century projections with the NCAR global coupled carbon cycle-climate model

(2010) Thomas L. Frölicher et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Temporary acceleration of the hydrological cycle in response to a CO2rampdown

(2010) Peili Wu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment

(2010) Richard H. Moss et al.   NATURE

How difficult is it to recover from dangerous levels of global warming?

(2009) J A Lowe et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Anticipating ocean acidification’s economic consequences for commercial fisheries

(2009) Sarah R Cooley et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The Effect of Terrestrial Photosynthesis Down Regulation on the Twentieth-Century Carbon Budget Simulated with the CCCma Earth System Model

(2009) V. K. Arora et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon emissions

(2009) H. Damon Matthews et al.   NATURE

Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne

(2009) Myles R. Allen et al.   NATURE

Greenhouse-gas emission targets for limiting global warming to 2 °C

(2009) Malte Meinshausen et al.   NATURE

Setting cumulative emissions targets to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change

(2009) K. Zickfeld et al.   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

Stabilizing climate requires near-zero emissions

(2008) H. Damon Matthews et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Long-Term Climate Commitments Projected with Climate–Carbon Cycle Models

(2008) G.-K. Plattner et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales of Potential CO2and Surface Temperature Perturbations

(2008) M. Eby et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE