Carbon Emissions (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Carbon Emissions

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Global carbon emission projections through the year 2100, per year (left) and cumulative (right). Dotted lines show the four 'scenarios' from the latest IPCC climate report. The shaded area is the new statistically-driven approach, where the darker area is the 90 percent confidence interval, and lighter shading is the 95 percent confidence range.

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Adrian Raftery/University of Washington

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