摘要:Recent research has highlighted risks associated with the use of climate engineering as a
method of stabilizing global temperatures, including the possibility of rapid climate
warming in the case of abrupt removal of engineered radiative forcing. In this study, we
have used a simple climate model to estimate the likely range of temperature changes
associated with implementation and removal of climate engineering. In the absence of
climate engineering, maximum annual rates of warming ranged from 0.015 to
0.07 °C/year, depending on the model's climate sensitivity. Climate engineering resulted
in much higher rates of warming, with the temperature change in the
year following the removal of climate engineering ranging from 0.13 to
0.76 °C. High rates of temperature change were sustained for two decades
following the removal of climate engineering; rates of change of 0.5
(0.3,0.1) °C/decade were exceeded over a 20 year period with 15% (75%, 100%) likelihood. Many ecosystems
could be negatively affected by these rates of temperature change; our results suggest that
climate engineering in the absence of deep emissions cuts could arguably constitute
increased risk of dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system under the
criteria laid out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.