Permafrost degradation increases risk and large future costs of infrastructure on the Third Pole

Controlling warming to below 1.5 °C instead of 2 °C could reduce the costs of infrastructure damage from permafrost degradation in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by $1.32 billion, according to statistical and machine learning-based model projections

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Communications Earth & Environment
Main Authors: Youhua Ran, Guodong Cheng, Yuanhong Dong, Jan Hjort, Amy Lauren Lovecraft, Shichang Kang, Meibao Tan, Xin Li
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
Subjects:
Geology
QE1-996.5
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
permafrost
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00568-6
https://doaj.org/article/f852a1d6df8e4a3fb82ab7d1a959ac45
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Summary:Controlling warming to below 1.5 °C instead of 2 °C could reduce the costs of infrastructure damage from permafrost degradation in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by $1.32 billion, according to statistical and machine learning-based model projections

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