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Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions

Susan Solomon, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Reto Knutti, and Pierre Friedlingstein
PNAS February 10, 2009 106 (6) 1704-1709; first published January 28, 2009; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812721106
Susan Solomon
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dInstitut Pierre Simon Laplace/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1572 Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique–Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, l'Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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  1. Contributed by Susan Solomon, December 16, 2008 (received for review November 12, 2008)

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vol. 106 no. 6 1704-1709
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812721106
PubMed: 
19179281

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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Received November 12, 2008
  • Published in issue February 10, 2009.
  • Published first January 28, 2009.

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Author Information

  1. Susan Solomona,1,
  2. Gian-Kasper Plattnerb,
  3. Reto Knuttic, and
  4. Pierre Friedlingsteind
  1. aChemical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305;
  2. bInstitute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics and
  3. cInstitute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland; and
  4. dInstitut Pierre Simon Laplace/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1572 Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique–Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, l'Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
  1. Contributed by Susan Solomon, December 16, 2008 (received for review November 12, 2008)

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  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: susan.solomon{at}noaa.gov
  • Author contributions: S.S., G.-K.P., R.K., and P.F. designed research; S.S., G.-K.P., and R.K. performed research; G.-K.P. and R.K. analyzed data; and S.S., G.-K.P., R.K., and P.F. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0812721106/DCSupplemental.

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