Brown climate scientist and EPSCoR investigator Baylor Fox-Kemper co-authored a new study of the diverse factors controlling global temperatures
Current climate models predict that global warming will cease once the world achieves “net-zero,” a phenomenon expected to occur when the amount of carbon dioxide that human activities emit into the atmosphere equals the amount of CO2 that is removed from the atmosphere.
Not so fast, assert the authors of a recent paper published in Frontiers in Science that challenges those modeling estimates. Co-authored by 21 climate experts, including Brown University Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Baylor Fox-Kemper, the study offers an analysis of the diverse factors controlling global temperatures and provides a framework for improving warming predictions.
This piece was originally published by the Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society on February 4, 2024. Read the full story!
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