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Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission
- Uses a robust linear relationship between monthly-mean September sea-ice area and cumulative CO2 emissions to infer the future evolution of Arctic summer sea ice directly from the observational record
- States that the observed linear relationship implies a sustained loss of 3 ± 0.3 m2 of September sea-ice area per metric ton of CO2 emission
- Finds, based on this sensitivity, that Arctic sea-ice will be lost throughout September for an additional 1000 Gt of CO2 emissions
- States that most models show a lower sensitivity, which is possibly linked to an underestimation of the modeled increase in incoming longwave radiation and of the modeled Transient Climate Response
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