{"id":45365,"date":"2026-10-06T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=45365"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:30:28","slug":"what-happens-after-the-globe-reaches-net-zero-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2026\/10\/06\/what-happens-after-the-globe-reaches-net-zero-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens after the globe reaches net-zero emissions?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"type-intro wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Brown climate scientist and EPSCoR investigator Baylor Fox-Kemper co-authored a new study of the diverse factors controlling global temperatures<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Current climate models predict that global warming will cease once the world achieves \u201cnet-zero,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not so fast, assert the authors of a recent paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/science\/articles\/10.3389\/fsci.2023.1170744\/full\">Frontiers in Science<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>This piece was originally published by the Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society on February 4, 2024.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/news\/2024-02-05\/net-zero-paper\">Read the full story!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current climate models predict that global warming will cease once the world achieves \u201cnet-zero,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1994,"featured_media":27125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-brown"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45366,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45365\/revisions\/45366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}