Your selected map location:
Step 2
Choose a Future Climate Scenario and Temperature Change Projection which ranges from best-case, better-mid-case, worse-mid-case to worst-case scenario, depending on your level of optimism:
Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) is a greenhouse gas concentration (not emissions) trajectory adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The pathways describe different climate futures, all of which are considered possible depending on the volume of greenhouse gases emitted in the years to come:
Representative Concentration Pathways Scenario |
Range of Global Mean Temperature Increase (Celsius) - 2100 from pre-Industrial baseline |
| RCP 2.6 |
~1.5 to ~2℃ |
| RCP 4.5 |
~2.5 to ~3℃ |
| RCP 6.0 |
~3 to ~3.5℃ |
| RCP 8.5 |
~5℃ |
Step 3
Choose a year range as far forward as 2060-2080.
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