Jayakrishnan & Bala [Preprint]: A comparison of the climate and carbon cycle effects of carbon removal by Afforestation and an equivalent reduction in Fossil fuel emissions
Koramanghat Unnikrishnan Jayakrishnan & Govindasamy Bala IN: Biogeosciences Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2022-227, in review, 2022.
In this paper, the authors compare the climate and carbon cycle consequences of carbon removal by afforestation and an equivalent fossil fuel emission reduction using simulations from an intermediate complexity Earth system model. The author’s simulations show that the climate is cooler by 0.36 °C, 0.47 °C, and 0.42 °C in the long term (2471–2500) in the case of reduced fossil fuel emissions compared to the case with afforestation when the emissions follow the SSP2-4.5, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5 scenarios, respectively.