The title has just splashed all over the news headlines – a new study by NOAA claims Global Warming is irreversible, and we’re stuck with the climate changes we’re incurring for at least 1000 years. It basically says that the next hundred years or so are going to cement what happens with our climate until at least 3000, even beyond.

But, the study isn’t out yet. At least the DOI given, 10.1073/pnas.0812721106, isn’t (PNAS article searches can’t find it either, although the news seems to claim it was published Monday). So I can’t read what it says, exactly.

The claims, anyhow, seem to be that even if we stop all CO₂ production right this instant, temperatures will still only cool by tenths of a degree for the next thousand years, at best. If we don’t, we start a trend of warming that will cause the oceans to leech carbon dioxide, making it impossible to undo.

Does anyone know anything more about this study, or how it calculated its claims? It seems like a very interesting article (if only I could find it).

UPDATE: Here’s the Press realease from the Nature blog just posted on it.