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Probabilistic Projections of Baseline 21st Century CO$_2$ Emissions Using a Simple Calibrated Integrated Assessment Model

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Pith's one-line read The paper argues that SSP5-RCP8.5 is a below-1% tail risk, not a baseline.

desk verdict Careful Bayesian calibration that makes a strong, conditional case that SSP5-RCP8.5 is a tail risk; the quantitative anchor is weakened by an untested saturating-TFP structure. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.01923 v4 pith:7DDAKENL submitted 2019-08-06 stat.AP

Vivek Srikrishnan , Yawen Guan , Richard S. J. Tol , Klaus Keller This is my paper · ORCID
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper uses a deliberately simple, transparent model of population, economic output, and carbon emissions, calibrated to centuries of historical data and expert judgments, to attach probabilities to baseline CO2 emissions through 2100. Its central claim is that the highest emissions scenarios used by the IPCC, especially SSP5-RCP8.5, are extreme tail risks rather than plausible business-as-usual futures: the cumulative emissions of SSP5-RCP8.5 have an exceedance probability below 1%. Under current policies and without negative-emissions technologies, more moderate scenarios such as SSP3-7.0 and SSP4-6.0 fall inside the model's likely range, while the projected likely range for cumulative 2018–2100 emissions is 700 to 1800 GtC. This matters because treating every scenario as equally likely biases climate risk assessment toward futures the historical record and expert opinion suggest are very unlikely, and it implies far more aggressive mitigation is needed for the 2°C target.

What carries the argument

The machinery is a simple, globally aggregated integrated assessment model that couples logistic population growth, a Solow–Swan/Cobb–Douglas production block, and emissions from four competing technologies with logistic penetration curves: a zero-carbon pre-industrial source, a coal-like high-carbon source, an oil-and-gas-like lower-carbon source, and an advanced zero-carbon source. Two structural assumptions carry the conclusions: total factor productivity grows logistically toward a saturation level, which keeps long-run growth near 1.2% per year, and a hard cap on cumulative fossil-fuel emissions (6,000 GtC in the standard case, with 3,000 and 10,000 GtC variants) forces eventual substitution to zero-carbon technology. The model is calibrated by Markov chain Monte Carlo with a vector-autoregressive error structure, and the prior distributions incorporate two expert assessments of long-run growth and 2100 emissions. The same machinery yields both the probabilistic emissions projections and a Sobol' variance decomposition showing that interactions among productivity growth, the labor elasticity, and the carbon intensity of the lower-carbon fossil technology dominate emissions uncertainty.

What would settle it

Track realized global per-capita gross world product growth and annual CO2 emissions over 2021–2040 and compare them with the model's 90% credible intervals. If average growth consistently exceeds the projected upper bound (roughly 2% per year) or if cumulative emissions drift above the interval's upper edge, the calibrated TFP-saturation mechanism is contradicted, and the below-1% tail probability for SSP5-RCP8.5 would not hold.

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Core claim

The study's central discovery is a probabilistic ranking of SSP-RCP emissions scenarios conditional on current policies and no negative-emissions technologies. In the standard calibration the central 90% interval for annual CO2 emissions in 2100 is 6–28 GtC, and the 34 GtC emissions of SSP5-RCP8.5 sit above that upper limit; its cumulative emissions of about 2,100 GtC are exceeded by fewer than 1% of posterior simulations. The median cumulative projection is roughly 1,200 GtC, and the likely range is 700–1,800 GtC across the standard and high-fossil-fuel cases. The driver of SSP5-RCP8.5's tail status is primarily the model's modest median economic growth of about 1.2% per year, lower than the inverted expert-growth assessment and SSP5's own assumptions. The result is robust to varying fossil-fuel resource caps and decarbonization priors, though delayed zero-carbon penetration thickens the upper tail.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that long-run innovation slows as total factor productivity approaches a saturation ceiling, so median economic growth stays near 1.2% per year; if innovation does not saturate, the probability assigned to very high emissions could be materially larger.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the projections are right, intermediate-high scenarios such as SSP3-7.0 and SSP4-6.0 are better baselines than SSP5-RCP8.5 for climate risk assessment.
  • Achieving even a 50% chance of meeting the 2°C target is very unlikely under baseline emissions, because the remaining carbon budgets for 1.5°C and 2°C are below the 1st percentile of projected cumulative emissions.
  • Fossil-fuel resource uncertainty shifts the projections modestly; even the high-resource case does not bring SSP5-RCP8.5 inside the likely range.
  • Population uncertainty contributes little to cumulative-emissions variability, while economic and technology uncertainties dominate, with strong interactions among them.
  • More aggressive mitigation than current pledges is required to reliably achieve the 2°C Paris Agreement target.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If autonomous productivity growth turns out not to saturate, for example because automation keeps shifting the technological frontier, the model's low-growth prior may be too pessimistic, and the probability attached to SSP5-RCP8.5 could rise well above 1%; this is a direct, testable implication of the structural assumption.
  • Because the model disallows coal from regaining energy share, it may understate how quickly emissions could rise if coal became cheap again; adding an explicit coal-return mechanism would be a robustness test of the tail-risk claim.
  • The same calibration framework could be rerun as new policies are implemented, so the baseline and the tail status of high scenarios should be treated as an evolving standard rather than a fixed result.
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Referee Report

3 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper calibrates a simple, DICE-like integrated assessment model with globally aggregated population, Solow-Swan economic growth, and a four-technology emissions module to historical observations (1820-2014) and two expert assessments, then produces probabilistic baseline CO2 emissions projections through 2100. Four scenarios vary fossil fuel resource caps (3,000/6,000/10,000 GtC) and prior beliefs about the zero-carbon technology half-saturation year. The central findings are that medium-to-high SSP scenarios (SSP3-7.0, SSP4-6.0) fall within the central 90% prediction intervals, that SSP5-RCP8.5 cumulative emissions (~2,100 GtC) have a posterior exceedance probability below 1% and should be interpreted as a tail-risk scenario, that likely cumulative emissions from 2018-2100 are 700-1,800 GtC, and that economic and technology dynamics dominate sensitivity of cumulative emissions, with population dynamics less important.

Significance. If the quantitative claims hold, the paper makes a valuable, decision-relevant contribution by providing probabilistic baselines for 21st-century CO2 emissions and by explicitly situating SSP scenarios within those distributions. The statistical treatment is careful: a VAR(1) residual structure, explicit likelihood derivation, four-chain MCMC with Gelman-Rubin diagnostics, k-fold cross-validation with 93% coverage, and variance-based Sobol sensitivity analysis with bootstrap confidence intervals are all strengths. The paper's simple, transparent model structure and explicit scenario analysis make it a useful reference point for risk assessments. However, the central quantitative claim--that SSP5-RCP8.5 has a below-1% exceedance probability--is conditional on a structural assumption about saturating total factor productivity that is weakly identified by historical data, and the abstract overstates support regarding the low end of the scenario distribution. The paper is therefore significant but requires additional structural robustness analysis before its headline quantitative claim can be accepted as stated.

major comments (3)
  1. [Section 3 and Supplemental Sections S1, S4] The below-1% exceedance probability for SSP5-RCP8.5 cumulative emissions is driven primarily by the model's relatively low economic growth projections, which in turn are driven by the saturating total factor productivity (TFP) equation A_t = A_{t-1} + alpha*A_{t-1}*(1 - A_{t-1}/A_s) (Section S1). The paper itself notes in Section S4 that some parameters used in the alternate-prior testing were 'not updated by the Bayesian inversion,' and Table S1 shows wide priors on alpha and A_s. Over the 1820-2014 calibration window the system is far from TFP saturation, so the data are nearly uninformative about A_s, leaving the low-growth projection (median roughly 1.2% per year) heavily dependent on the assumed saturating functional form. The alternate-prior analysis in Table S3 and Figure S1 changes prior shapes but does not test structurally different TFP dynamics, even though Section 4 explicitly lists trend breaks in TFP growth as a relevant extension. A non-saturating or trend-breaking TFP process could materially shift the upper tail of cumulative emissions and hence the stated <1% exceedance probability. The qualitative ordering of SSP scenarios may survive, but the precise quantitative tail-risk claim is conditional on an untested structural assumption. Please demonstrate robustness under structurally alternative TFP specifications or revise the probability claims to reflect this conditioning.
  2. [Abstract and Section 2] The abstract claims that 'more moderate scenarios used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are more likely than the extreme high or low scenarios,' but Section 2 explicitly states that the model cannot compare with SSP1-1.9, SSP2-2.6, and SSP4-3.4 because those scenarios include negative emissions technologies, which are not represented in the model. The analysis therefore provides no quantitative support for statements about the low end of the scenario distribution; it can only support comparisons among the high and medium scenarios that are actually evaluated. The abstract should be revised to align with the scenarios actually analyzed.
  3. [Section 3, Figure 2] The text states that SSP5-RCP8.5 'remains exceptionally unlikely ... with an exceedance probability below 1%,' but the numerical exceedance probability is not reported anywhere in the main text or supplement. Figure 2 shows cumulative density functions, but precise values cannot be read from the figure, especially for tails below 1%. Please report the estimated exceedance probabilities (and, if possible, posterior credible intervals for those probabilities) for all four model scenarios in a table so that the central quantitative claim is directly verifiable.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Section S2] The sentence 'The average cross-validation coverage of the 90% credible intervals for the held-out data are 93' appears truncated; it should read 'are 93%.' Please also report the standard error or range across the fifty hold-out sets.
  2. [Figure 1 caption] The phrase 'The marker baseline SSP-RCP emissions scenarios which will be used...' likely should be 'The marked baseline SSP-RCP emissions scenarios...' or 'The markers show baseline SSP-RCP emissions scenarios...' for clarity.
  3. [Section 3] The sentence 'Depending on the scenario, however, the 90% credible interval of our projections can include anywhere from 78-85% of the SSP5-RCP8.5 cumulative emissions depending on the scenario' is ambiguous: it is unclear whether the 78-85% refers to the share of the scenario's cumulative emissions that falls inside the interval or the probability mass of the interval overlapping the scenario value. Please clarify.
  4. [Table S1] The prior table lists separate normal priors for rho2 and rho3 with the same bounds, but the text in Section S1 states the constraint rho2 >= rho3 is imposed. The table and text should make clear how the constraint is incorporated in the prior specification.
  5. [Table S2] The observation error variance for emissions is labeled 'epsilon1' in the table, duplicating the label for population; it should be labeled 'epsilon3' (or similar) to be consistent with the three-module notation.
  6. [General] No data or code availability statement is provided in the manuscript. Given the paper's emphasis on transparency and reproducibility, a statement indicating where the data and code (if available) can be accessed would strengthen the contribution.

Circularity Check

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No load-bearing circularity; the <1% SSP5 exceedance claim is a calibrated model output, and the one self-cited expert assessment is shown to fatten, not force, the upper tail.

full rationale

The derivation chain is self-contained. The posterior predictive distribution for cumulative CO2 emissions is produced by calibrating a three-module IAM (population, Solow-Swan growth with saturating TFP, and logistic technology substitution) to century-scale observations via a VAR(1) likelihood, with priors listed in Supplemental Tables S1-S3. The central quantitative claim, that SSP5-RCP8.5 cumulative emissions (~2,100 GtC) have an exceedance probability below 1%, is an output of this posterior, not a parameter fitted to that scenario. The paper explicitly attributes the low probability to its relatively low economic growth projections ('This is primarily due to our lower projections of economic growth compared to both the inverted economic-growth expert assessment and the SSP5-8.5 scenario'), and the low growth follows from the saturating TFP equation adopted from Nordhaus and Yohe (1983) with priors on alpha and A_s; this is an externally cited, stated structural assumption rather than an equation that defines the target probability in terms of itself. The only overlapping-authorship citation is Ho et al. (2019), where Klaus Keller is a co-author; the paper uses it as an expert-assessment prior and reports that including it increases the size of the tail extending past RCP 8.5 (Supplemental Figure S6), so this prior does not produce the sub-1% exceedance result. Alternate priors and expert-assessment exclusions preserve the qualitative ordering, and the paper reports cross-validation coverage. Concerns about whether saturating TFP is the correct structural model, and whether alternative TFP dynamics would shift the tail, are correctness and robustness risks rather than circularity, because the target probability is not definitionally linked to the assumed TFP form.

Assumptions & free parameters 7 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on a chain of modeling choices: the growth model structure, the TFP saturation form, the technology diffusion specification, and the hard resource caps. The most consequential is the TFP saturation equation, because it produces the low growth rates that exclude RCP8.5 from the likely range. The model does not introduce new physical or social entities.

free parameters (7)
  • alpha (TFP growth rate) = Posterior distribution via MCMC; point estimate not stated in text
    Drives long-run economic growth; total-order Sobol index 0.76, highest interaction with lambda.
  • A_s (TFP saturation level) = Posterior distribution; uniform prior 5.3-16.11
    Controls the slowdown of productivity growth and hence the low growth projection.
  • lambda (elasticity of production w.r.t. labor) = Posterior distribution; normal prior 0.6-0.8
    Strongly interacts with alpha and delta; total-order Sobol 0.81.
  • delta (capital depreciation rate) = Posterior distribution; uniform prior 0.01-0.14
    Affects capital accumulation and growth; second-order interactions with lambda and A0.
  • tau_4 (zero-carbon half-saturation year) = Posterior distribution; prior truncated normal with mode 2100
    Most important first-order sensitivity for cumulative emissions (total-order 0.29).
  • rho_3 (carbon intensity of technology 3) = Posterior distribution; normal prior 0-0.75 kgC/2011US$
    Directly converts economic output into emissions; first-order Sobol 0.24.
  • kappa (technology penetration rate) = Posterior distribution; uniform 0.005-0.2
    Controls speed of technology transitions; total-order 0.02.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Cobb-Douglas production function with constant savings rate in a Solow-Swan growth model
    Used in S1 for economic output; a standard but restrictive representation of the global economy.
  • domain assumption Total factor productivity grows logistically toward a saturation level (Nordhaus-Yohe)
    Equation in S1; drives the low-growth projection that is the primary reason RCP8.5 is a tail risk.
  • domain assumption Technology penetration follows logistic curves with a common rate kappa
    Carbon intensity module in S1; based on Marchetti (1977) and Grubler et al. (1999).
  • ad hoc to paper Fossil fuel resource constraints are fixed caps; simulated emissions exceeding the cap get zero likelihood
    Calibration section S2; the caps (3000, 6000, 10000 GtC) are scenario inputs from literature, but the hard zero-likelihood treatment is a modeling choice.
  • domain assumption Expert assessments (Christensen et al. 2018, Ho et al. 2019) are used as informative priors
    Section 2; the exact prior construction is in the supplement. This injects subjective judgement into the probabilities.
  • standard math VAR(1) residual process for observation errors
    Supplement S3; a statistical modeling choice for autocorrelated residuals.

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Probabilistic projections of baseline (with no additional mitigation policies) future carbon emissions are important for sound climate risk assessments. Deep uncertainty surrounds many drivers of projected emissions. Here we use a simple integrated assessment model, calibrated to century-scale data and expert assessments of baseline emissions, global economic growth, and population growth, to make probabilistic projections of carbon emissions through 2100. Under a variety of assumptions about fossil fuel resource levels and decarbonization rates, our projections largely agree with several emissions projections under current policy conditions. Our global sensitivity analysis identifies several key economic drivers of uncertainty in future emissions and shows important higher-level interactions between economic and technological parameters, while population uncertainties are less important. Our analysis also projects relatively low global economic growth rates over the remainder of the century. This illustrates the importance of additional research into economic growth dynamics for climate risk assessment, especially if pledged and future climate mitigation policies are weakened or have delayed implementations. These results showcase the power of using a simple, transparent, and calibrated model. While the simple model structure has several advantages, it also creates caveats for our results which are related to important areas for further research.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Projections of carbon dioxide emissions — Annual carbon dioxide emissions projections for the considered scenarios. The shaded regions are the central 90% credible intervals. Black dots represent observations. The marginal distributions of projected CO2 emissions in 2100 are shown on the right. The marker baseline SSP-RCP emissions scenarios which will be used for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (Ri￾ahi et al., 201… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Cumulative emissions projections from 2018-2100 – Cumulative density functions for cumulative emissions projections for the four model scenarios. The grey lines are the cumulative emissions over this period for the labelled IPCC scenario. The green region represents cumulative emissions which are consistent with at least a 50% probability of achieving the 2◦C Paris Accords target (Rogelj et al., 2018b). 6 [PITH_FUL… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Global sensitivities of cumulative emissions to model variables — Global sensitiv￾ity (Sobol’, 1993, 2001) indices for the decomposition of variance of cumulative emissions from 2018–2100. The computation of sensitivity index estimates is described in the Section S4 of Online Resource 1. Filled green nodes represent first-order sensitivity indices, filled purple nodes represent total-order sensitivity in￾dices, and … view at source ↗

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