PARIS - Greenhouse gases thrust into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels are warming Earth's surface more quickly than previously understood, according to new climate models set to replace those used in current UN projections, scientists said on Tuesday .
The new calculations also suggest the Paris Agreement goals of capping global warming at"well below" 2 deg C, and 1.5 deg C if possible, will be harder to reach, the scientists said. A new generation of 30-odd climate models known collectively as CMIP6 - including the two unveiled on Tuesday - will underpin the IPCC's next major report in 2021.
"We have better models now," said Boucher."They have better resolution, and they represent current climate trends more accurately." The French models are among the first to be released, but others developed independently have come to the same unsettling conclusion, Boucher confirmed. "A higher ECS means a greater likelihood of reaching higher levels of global warming, even with deeper emissions cuts," Boucher and two British scientists - Stephen Belcher from the UK Met Office and Rowan Sutton from the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science - wrote in a blog earlier this year, tiptoeing around the implications of the new models.
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