Probability distributions for carbon emissions and atmospheric response |
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Authors: | Clifford E Singer T S Gopi Rethinaraj Samuel Addy David Durham Murat Isik Madhu Khanna Brandon Kuehl Jianding Luo Wilma Quimio Kothavari Rajendran Donna Ramirez Ji Qiang Jürgen Scheffran T Nedjla Tiouririne Junli Zhang |
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Institution: | 1. Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA
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Abstract: | Probability distributions for carbon burning, atmospheric CO2, and global average temperature are produced by time series calibration of models of utility optimization and carbon and heat balance using log-linear production functions. Population growth is used to calibrate a logistically evolving index of development that influences production efficiency. Energy production efficiency also includes a coefficient that decreases linearly with decreasing carbon intensity of energy production. This carbon intensity is a piecewise linear function of fossil carbon depletion. That function is calibrated against historical data and extrapolated by sampling a set of hypotheses about the impact on the carbon intensity of energy production of depleting fluid fossil fuel resources and increasing cumulative carbon emissions. Atmospheric carbon balance is determined by a first order differential equation with carbon use rates and cumulative carbon use as drivers. Atmospheric CO2 is a driver in a similar heat balance. Periodic corrections are included where required to make residuals between data and model results indistinguishable from independently and identically distributed normal distributions according to statistical tests on finite Fourier power spectrum amplitudes and nearest neighbor correlations. Asymptotic approach to a sustainable non-fossil energy production is followed for a global disaggregation into a tropical/developing and temperate/more-developed region. The increase in the uncertainty of global average temperature increases nearly quadratically with the increase in the temperature from the present through the next two centuries. |
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