Does UKCP09 provide any information beyond 2100?

There are no probabilistic climate projections for beyond 2100.

In detail

Changes in climate beyond 2100 were not investigated as part of UKCP09, however other studies have examined how climate might change on longer timescales. In practice, the future trajectory of future climate is likely to be critically dependent on future emissions scenarios, which makes any meaningful conclusions difficult.

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• The Tyndall Centre have investigated climate changes over much longer (millennial) time-scales.

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• The 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) reports on projected changes to the year 3000 and beyond (Working Group 1, Chapter 10, Section 10.7.2).

• Last updated: Thursday, 14 June 2012