Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Research interests

Publications

• Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 10.1073/pnas.2108146119

• Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18922-7

• Feeding ten billion people is possible within four terrestrial planetary boundaries

  Nature Sustainability · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0465-1

• Buildings as a global carbon sink

  Nature Sustainability · 2020 · 10.1038/s41893-019-0462-4

• Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900577117

• The emergence and evolution of Earth System Science

  Nature Reviews Earth & Environment · 2020 · 10.1038/s43017-019-0005-6

• Impacts of climate change on future air quality and human health in China

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 10.1073/pnas.1812881116

• Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03595-0

• City-level climate change mitigation in China

  Science Advances · 2018 · 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0390

• Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810141115

• Three years to safeguard our climate

  Nature · 2017 · 10.1038/546593a

• A roadmap for rapid decarbonization

  Science · 2017 · 10.1126/science.aah3443

• Why the right climate target was agreed in Paris

  Nature Climate Change · 2016 · 10.1038/nclimate3013

• How dead ends undermine power grid stability

  Nature Communications · 2014 · 10.1038/ncomms4969

• Quasiresonant amplification of planetary waves and recent Northern Hemisphere weather extremes

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1222000110

• The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship

  AMBIO · 2011 · 10.1007/s13280-011-0185-x

• Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges

  Science · 2010 · 10.1126/science.1196263

• Imprecise probability assessment of tipping points in the climate system

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 10.1073/pnas.0809117106

• Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity

  Ecology and Society · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.5751/es-03180-140232

• A safe operating space for humanity

  Nature · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/461472a

• Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0705414105

• Sustainability Science

  Science · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1059386

• ‘Earth system’ analysis and the second Copernican revolution

  Nature · 1999 · 10.1038/35011515

• Indication of a Universal Persistence Law Governing Atmospheric Variability

  Physical Review Letters · 1998 · 10.1103/physrevlett.81.729

• One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation with an Almost Periodic Potential

  Physical Review Letters · 1983 · 10.1103/physrevlett.50.1873

Current projects

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