Emissions and CO2 Concentration—An Evidence Based Approach

Author:

Dengler Joachim1ORCID,Reid John2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Independent Researcher, Reichensteinstr. 54, 69151 Neckargemünd, Germany

2. Independent Researcher, 33 Charlotte St., New Norfold, TAS 7140, Australia

Abstract

The relation between CO2 emissions and atmospheric CO2 concentration has traditionally been treated with more or less complex models with several boxes. Our approach is motivated by the question of how much CO2 must necessarily be absorbed by sinks. This is determined by accepted measurements and the global carbon budget. Observations lead to the model assumption that carbon sinks, similar to oceans or the biosphere, are linearly dependent on CO2 concentration on a decadal scale. In particular, this implies the falsifiable hypothesis that oceanic and biological CO2 buffers have not significantly changed in the past 70 years and are not saturated in the foreseeable future. A statistical model with two parameters is built from the global carbon budget and two testable assumptions. This model explains the relation between CO2 emission and historical CO2 concentration data very well. The model gives estimates of the natural emissions, the pre-industrial CO2 equilibrium concentration levels, the half-life time of an emission pulse, and the future CO2 concentration level from a given emission scenario. It is validated by an ex-post forecast of the last 20 years. The important result is that, with the stated polices emission scenario of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the future CO2 concentrations will not rise above 475 ppm. The model is compared with the carbon module of the Bern model, mapping their complex impulse response functions (IRFs) to a single time variant absorption parameter.

Funder

re:look climate gGmbH, Berlin

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Atmospheric Science,Environmental Science (miscellaneous)

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