Sentences with phrase «celsius above»

The international community has agreed to limit warming to no more than 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

It resulted in a global agreement to keep warming well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — or ideally to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

And looking at those maps we find that the polar region heated up significantly from already warm ranges of 4 to 6.9 degrees Celsius above average during January to an amazing 4 to 12.3 C above average during February.

Between October 2015 and September 2016, temperatures over Arctic land areas were 2.0 degrees Celsius above the 1981 - 2010 baseline, the warmest on record going back to 1900.

Even in a scenario in which global temperatures warm to only about 2 ° Celsius above pre-industrial times, the analysis shows that several of the world's coastal megacities will eventually be submerged.

Nearly 200 countries agreed to the deal last year, which would commit governments to limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

At the Cancun Climate Change Conference in 2010, almost 200 governments agreed «to commit to a maximum temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to consider lowering that maximum to 1.5 degrees in the near future» (United Nations, Framework Convention on Climate Change).

It's no easy task, but the first step is to make a plan outlining how to meet the targets set out in the Paris Agreement, and help limit the world's mean temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Globally, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, 195 countries — including the United States, at the time — agreed to pollution - cutting provisions with a goal of preventing the average global temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times.

The climate change report says oil demand will drop to 78 million barrels a day by 2040 under a scenario whereby global temperatures do not rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

The first comes in response to a shareholder vote last year that demanded Exxon publish the risks it faces if the world hits its carbon - emissions goal to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

To create a scenario where global temperatures are «likely» to remain less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (the globally agreed - upon threshold after which «dangerous» climate change is apt to begin), we'd need to have around one - quarter of our energy mix from low - carbon sources by the year 2030.

To abandon the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels would be a grave mistake.

Agricultural scientists have drawn a correlation between a temperature rise of 1 degree Celsius above the optimum during the growing season and a grain yield decrease of 10 percent.

It also notes that halting crude exports is essential to the Paris Agreement's goal «to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.»

But at the latest climate talks in Bonn last fall, diplomats once again ratified a long - standing international target of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

The City College researchers now conclude the 2010 summer temperatures were 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above average, actually higher than NOAA's Arctic Report Card had stated.

Scientists have documented that sustained water temperatures of as little as one degree Celsius above normal summer maxima can cause irreversible damage.

The Paris Climate Accord seeks to limit global temperature increases to 1.5 ° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have added up to a target 3 or 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial warming, IF they decide to achieve their pledges.

Two decades after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, most governments have agreed that limiting the increase in the average surface temperature of the Earth to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels would represent a tolerable amount of global warming.

Their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions have added up to a target 3 or 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial warming,

«The declaration of the 7 EU countries basically recognizes that the current EU ambition for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is not in line with the goal of the Paris Agreement to pursue efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Starting in March (and every month since), this suggested that the 2016 net warming will be about 1.3 degrees Celsius above late - 19th century temperatures.

There is universal recognition that if we are to realize the central aim of the Paris Agreement to keep a global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this century, we must all go further and faster in delivering climate action before 2020.

Even though next week will be cooler and more unsettled, April is bound to turn out a warm, dry and sunny month when the monthly statistics are released by the Met Office, with the mean CET (Central England Temperature) currently running 2 degrees Celsius above normal for the month so far.

After decades of delay, the scale of action required to meet the internationally agreed - upon target for global warming — no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — has now become nearly infeasible.

Trusel's latest study shows that, should global temperatures remain less than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, it's very unlikely that many more ice shelves in Antarctica will suffer a similar fate any time soon.

March 29 at 10:00 am EDT In this one - hour webinar, Nate Aden from WRI presented pathways for reducing industrial subsectors» GHG emissions to a level commensurate with limiting average warming in this century to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The death we scientists observed; a change as little as 1 degree Celsius above normal, can cause severe damage to corals and other organisms.

Research published in Nature recommends that, globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves, and over 80 percent of current coal reserves should remain unused from 2010 to 2050, in order to keep average global temperatures from rising no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Now according to JMA March 2016 was +0.62 degrees Celsius above the climate average value (of all March values) of 1981 - 2010 — exactly as high (also an anomaly of +0.62 degrees Celsius) as February 2016 lay above all February values.

An internal memo, sent by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver's deputy minister Serge Dupont and released to Postmedia's Mike De Souza through access to information legislation, highlighted a section of a Conference Board of Canada report that said demand for fossil fuels could drop if countries attempt to prevent the planet's atmosphere from warming by more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

That's nearly 200 countries working to keep the global average temperature from climbing 2 degrees Celsius above pre-Industrial Revolution levels.

In signing the Paris Agreement, each country put forth goals on what they would do to help reach the goal of keeping the temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The inclusion of the goal to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is seen as a win by the international community.

There's disagreement at the talks over whether this new agreement should aim to hold the temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels or whether the limit should remain at 2 degrees.

On our current pace, factoring in current climate policies of every nation on Earth, the best independent analyses show that we are on course for warming of about 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, enough to extinguish entire ecosystems and destabilize human civilization.

It shoved sub-surface temperature anomalies into an extreme range of 6 degrees Celsius above average at a depth of 90 - 130 meters over an equatorial zone stretching out for hundreds of miles.

The Paris Agreement, reached at COP21 in December 2015, aims to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Climate negotiators in 2009 agreed upon an unpalatable goal: to produce a 2015 climate treaty that caps global warming at two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Since 2009, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's goal has been to make sure the Earth doesn't get warmer than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.1 That sounds like a small number, but because it's a global average, it contains all sorts of fluctuations — for the whole planet to get warmer by that amount means that some places are getting much hotter.

Though such a nightmare melt scenario was recently theoretical, it represented a very real potential near - future event as global temperatures rose into the 1 - 2 degrees Celsius above 1880s range during recent years.

Based on «a leading aggregate damage estimate in the climate economics literature,» the report found that the nation will suffer at least $ 150 billion in additional economic damages each year if global temperatures increase by three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, rather than two degrees Celsius:

This region showed temperature departures in a range higher than 4 degrees Celsius above average and included extreme, 1,200 year, drought conditions for California combined with record heat and wildfires for this broader region.

Based on a leading aggregate damage estimate in the climate economics literature, a delay that results in warming of 3 ° Celsius above preindustrial levels, instead of 2 °, could increase economic damages by approximately 0.9 percent of global output.

This region also showed monthly anomalies in an extraordinary range of +4 to +7.5 degrees Celsius above average.

Global temperature increases of about 1 degrees Celsius above 1880s values are causing the oceans to thermally expand.

The right direction is away from a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.

These changes are already underway, with global temperatures 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, and the impact on food security, water supplies and livelihoods is just beginning.