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Earth system science

a proposed Earth system trajectory in which self-reinforcing feedbacks push the planet past a threshold toward much hotter conditions regardless of later emission cuts.

In earth system science, Hothouse Earth refers to a proposed Earth system trajectory in which self-reinforcing feedbacks push the planet past a threshold toward much hotter conditions regardless of later emission cuts. This meaning comes from Steffen (2018) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

  1. Steffen, W., Rockström, J., Richardson, K., Lenton, T. M., Folke, C., Liverman, D., Summerhayes, C. P., Barnosky, A. D., Cornell, S. E., Crucifix, M., Donges, J. F., Fetzer, I., Lade, S. J., Scheffer, M., Winkelmann, R., & Schellnhuber, H. J. (2018). Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(33), 8252-8259. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810141115

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