Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Emission scenarios

Explaining differences

Nature Climate Change volume 7, pages 99–100 (2017)Cite this article

Subjects

Carbon dioxide emission scenarios rely on a number of assumptions about how societies will develop in the future, creating uncertainty in projections. Now, research reveals the sensitivity of emission estimates to some of these assumptions.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Moss, R. H. et al. Nature 463, 747–756 (2010).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. van Ruijven, B. J. et al. Climatic Change 122, 481–494 (2013).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Riahi, K. et al. Glob. Environ. Change http://doi.org/brg6 (2016).

  4. Marangoni, G. et al. Nat. Clim. Change http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3199 (2017).

  5. Rosa, E. A. & Dietz, T. Nat. Clim. Change 2, 581–586 (2012).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. O'Neill, B. C. et al. Glob. Environ. Change http://doi.org/f3pvqj (2015).

  7. Gillingham, K. et al. Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change: A Multi-Model Comparison NBER Working Paper No. 21637 (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015).

    Book  Google Scholar 

  8. Iyer, G. et al. Nat. Clim. Change 5, 436–440 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. McCollum, D. L. et al. Transport. Res. Part D Transport Environ. http://doi.org/bwjr (2016).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Gokul Iyer and James Edmonds are at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA,

    Gokul Iyer & James Edmonds

Authors
  1. Gokul Iyer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. James Edmonds
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Gokul Iyer.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Iyer, G., Edmonds, J. Explaining differences. Nature Clim Change 7, 99–100 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3200

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3200

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing