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Nature 451, 297-298 (17 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06593; Published online 16 January 2008
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A steep road to climate stabilization
Pierre Friedlingstein1
Abstract
The only way to stabilize Earth's climate is to stabilize the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, but future changes in the carbon cycle might make this more difficult than has been thought.
The present dependence on fossil fuels for energy means that as the demand for energy increases, so does the emission of greenhouse gases. The increasing concentration of these gases in the atmosphere has caused most of the warming observed worldwide over the twentieth century.
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