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What benefit would be achieved by limiting the peak CO2 concentration not to 500-560 ppm (“business as usual” values), but instead to 450 or 480 ppm?

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What benefit would be achieved by limiting the peak CO2 concentration not to 500-560 ppm (“business as usual” values), but instead to 450 or 480 ppm?

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This contrasts very strongly with (for example) limiting ***black carbon*** emissions, e.g., from diesel vehicles and residential coal and wood stoves. Black carbon (aka, “soot”) kills.