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Thu Jan 21, 2016, 11:42 AM Jan 2016

A New Study Puts Temperature Increases Caused by CO2 Emissions on the Map

ontreal, Jan. 20, 2016 -- Earth's temperature has increased by 1°C over the past century, and most of this warming has been caused by carbon dioxide emissions. But what does that mean locally?


This graph breaks down the increase in temperature by region, caused by climate change. Credit: Nature Climate Change
A new study published in Nature Climate Change pinpoints the temperature increases caused by CO¬2 emissions in different regions around the world.

Using simulation results from 12 global climate models, Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia's Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, along with post-doctoral researcher Martin Leduc, produced a map that shows how the climate changes in response to cumulative carbon emissions around the world.

They found that temperature increases in most parts of the world respond linearly to cumulative emissions.

http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/2016012101240011.html

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