Sentences with phrase «celsius of»

The surface record is also far longer — dating back to 1880 — and as of the end of 2015 shows a full 1 degree Celsius of warming over pre-industrial temperatures, according to NASA and NOAA.

At the 2016 Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali, Rwanda, countries around the world agreed to a legally binding commitment to reduce HFC emissions that could prevent up to 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100.

This most basic assumption in fact explains 97 %, all but about 10 celsius of our approximately 288 observed temperature.

«Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place.

In normal usage, it is usually stated as degrees Celsius of global warming from a doubling in CO2 concentrations from pre-industrial levels (approx 280 ppm to 560 ppm).

Maybe the Algeria study does claim the higher level of warming — I have yet to translate from the French — but it is then surprising that we get the same consequence as for warming for 0.6 to 1.0 Celsius of the Morocco study.

In addition, it was already known via the Clausius - Clapeyron relation, that warmer air can hold more water vapour: the amount is about 7 % more per degree Celsius of warming.

As I understand it (from the IPCC report and from Ramanathan en Feng, Sept 23 2008 in PNAS) stopping all emissions suddenly would cause about 1.6 degree Celsius of extra warming, because short - lived pollution would quickly be removed from the atmosphere.

Reducing carbon emissions to ensure a 66 % chance of staying below 2 degrees Celsius of warming would be a great challenge even if every country were to accept to reduce its current emissions at the same rate.

[1] There is no such thing, as even the 0.8 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels that we have thus far experienced has led to widespread and severe devastation.

These projected impacts, calculated per degree Celsius of global warming, include:

When we do that we see three to five degrees Celsius of UHI.

If there is deep - water formation in the final steady state as in the present day, the ocean will eventually warm up fairly uniformly by the amount of the global average surface temperature change (Stouffer and Manabe, 2003), which would result in about 0.5 m of thermal expansion per degree celsius of warming, calculated from observed climatology; the EMICs in Figure 10.34 indicate 0.2 to 0.6 m °C — 1 for their final steady state (year 3000) relative to 2000.

In 2009, the international Cancun Agreements called for countries to keep global warming within two degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels.

The fast adapters on average arrived 3 - 6 days earlier for each degree Celsius of warming.

Implementation of the Kigali amendment could avoid up to 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century; this is a significant step towards limiting global warming to under two degrees, as committed under the Paris Agreement.

Ridley asserted that «the net positive feedbacks from water vapor in the atmosphere [is] low, so that we face only 1 to 2 degrees Celsius of warming this century.»

So we get around 3 degrees Celsius of rapid warming at 550 parts per million, according to mainstream science.

We've seen what 1 degree Celsius of warming does (we're nearly there).

This is the starting point of this fight and we will continue to stand with the developing world till developed countries provide clear transparency, ambition, action, equity, and climate justice to save the planet from the rise of 3.5 degree Celsius of temperature.

We also know that we have very little wiggle room for human comfort and prospertity — at best 2 degrees Celsius of warming.

If global temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius, they write in a study summarizing their findings published in the journal Climatic Change last September, «Results indicate that floods will be more frequent and flood magnitudes greater» than they would be at just 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming.

The mean was about 3.5 degrees Celsius of warming.

Higher rates of precipitation from thunderstorms are becoming a more common event the world over as the hydrological cycle is amped up by the more than 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase that has already occurred since 1880.

Studies Show Agreement Based On Countries» Commitments Can Avert Approximately One Degree Celsius Of Warming.

This heat forcing, using paleoclimate proxies from 5 to 30 million years ago, implies approximately 2 degrees Celsius of warming this Century and about 4 degrees Celsisus of warming long term.

[57] If the entire industrialized world totally eliminated all CO2 emissions, only 0.278 degree Celsius of warming would be averted by the end of the century.

The nonprofit Climate Interactive projected that if all countries» existing carbon reduction pledges are «fully implemented, with no further action,» global temperatures will rise 3.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2100, which is 1 degree less than the 4.5 degrees Celsius of projected warming that would occur under «business as usual.»

We used to talk about maybe 4.0 ° or 5.0 ° Celsius of increased temperatures by the end of the century.

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a global agreement reached last year to phase - down HFCs, could help avoid up to half a degree Celsius of warming by the end of this century.

One of the simplest relationships in climate change is how the water - vapor capacity of air increases about 6 - 8 percent for every degree Celsius of warming.

Light says amending the Montreal Protocol to end their use by 2030 could, «avoid half a degree Celsius of warming by the end of the century.»

Beyond the agreement's extraordinary climate benefits of avoiding as much as 70 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent and nearly half a degree Celsius of warming globally by the end of the century, it will also greatly benefit industry, workers, and consumers here in the United States.

It concluded that due to the amount of human carbon emissions in the atmosphere, the planet has reached 3 to 7 degrees Celsius of global warming.

Source: press release for Myers et al., 2015 Sea Levels 2 - 4 m Higher Until ~ 5,000 Years Ago Imply Surface Temps Were At Least 5 °C Warmer According to the accepted (IPCC) formula for calculating the contribution of ocean warming (thermal expansion) to sea level rise upon reaching equilibrium, every additional degrees Celsius of surface warmth yields -LSB-...]

The team calculates that if emissions» reductions began today, they would need to occur at the rate of 6 percent per year (whereas if they had started in 2005, they would only have needed to be 3.5 percent per year) to keep the global temperature within about 1 - 1.5 degrees Celsius of preindustrial levels.

Human civilization developed over a period of 10,000 years during which global average surface temperatures remained remarkably stable, hovering within one degree Celsius of where they are today.

For each 1 degree Celsius of temperature increase, the hydrological cycle intensifies by 8 percent.

5 percent to 15 percent lower yields of some crops, including U.S. and African corn and Indian wheat, per degree Celsius of warming.

5 percent to 10 percent less streamflow in some river basins, including the Arkansas and Rio Grande, per degree Celsius of warming.

Either way, this doubling would cause roughly 2 degrees Celsius of global warming on average, but it would be much more dramatic at the poles.

In this Hadley Centre model study Forest cover decreases most rapidly from +1 to +3 degrees Celsius of global average warming, suggesting the Amazon tipping point slides along the temperature scale following an S - shaped curve.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted that the steps being taken would only prevent.01 degrees Celsius of warming, but it was the example that counted for the rest of the world.»

Even if the world meets the terms of the Paris Agreement, scientists expect 2.7 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100, far more than the agreement calls for, which is 1.5 to 2 degrees.

They took a conservative approach, associating a doubling of carbon dioxide emissions with 5 degrees Celsius of temperature rise in the Arctic.

Many studies show that in the absence of other contributing factors, 4 ° Celsius of global warming would be the tipping point to degraded savannas in most of the central, southern, and eastern Amazon.

Intimate and beautiful, it's a wonderful place to get to know each other over a glass of wine (chilled to the optimum 13 degrees Celsius of corse!).

In addition, it was already known via the Clausius - Clapeyron relation, that warmer air can hold more water vapour: the amount is about 7 % more per degree Celsius of warming.

A 2016 study in the journal Nature Geoscience found that sulfate aerosol reductions in Europe since 1980 could account for as much as a half - degree Celsius of warming observed in the Arctic between 1980 and 2005.

Another 2015 study found that, like methane, black carbon is responsible for about a half a degree Celsius of warming in the Arctic.