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Explaining differences

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Carbon dioxide emission scenarios rely on a number of assumptions about how societies will develop in the future, creating uncertainty in projections. Now, research reveals the sensitivity of emission estimates to some of these assumptions.

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  1. Gokul Iyer and James Edmonds are at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA,

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Iyer, G., Edmonds, J. Explaining differences. Nature Clim Change 7, 99–100 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3200

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