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What is Transient climate response?

Definition 27.10 University Earth and Space Sciences — Year 2 · Chapter 27 — Anthropogenic Climate Change

The transient climate response (TCR) is the global surface warming at the moment the carbon dioxide of the air has doubled, when it rises by 1 %1\,\% a year from its pre-industrial level, about seventy years after the start.

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