The authors don't include some extremely nasty feedback loops the appear to currently be happening. For example, methane release from permafrost melt.
As a result, the simulation appears to be misleadingly optimistic.
- This tool is based on climate interactive's previous one, C-Road.
- in the C-Road simulation when you click on parameters -> assumptions to add parameters about methane release through permafrost melting and human activities. By default, it's set to zero, but even their maximum values don't seem as impactful as I would expect.
- in EN-Road simulation (this one) the methane release parameters are removed! So, no possibility to add any positive feedback loops. It feels like the relation between CO2 and temperature is a simple linear equation, or close to it.
As a result, the simulation appears to be misleadingly optimistic.
- This tool is based on climate interactive's previous one, C-Road.
- in the C-Road simulation when you click on parameters -> assumptions to add parameters about methane release through permafrost melting and human activities. By default, it's set to zero, but even their maximum values don't seem as impactful as I would expect.
- in EN-Road simulation (this one) the methane release parameters are removed! So, no possibility to add any positive feedback loops. It feels like the relation between CO2 and temperature is a simple linear equation, or close to it.