Sentences with phrase «climate stabilization targets»

Yet, our National Research Council Climate Stabilization Targets report points out that some of the most dramatic climate changes will endure for tens of thousands of years, with slow feedbacks providing some of the more catastrophic possibilities.

July 19: Dr. Stephen Schneider passed away unexpectedly in London • July 17: The Polar Science Center observes anomalous drop in Arctic ice volume • July 16: The National Academy of Sciences released a summary report on climate stabilization targets pertaining to emissions, concentrations, and impacts over decades to millennia.

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Further information about the way today's CO2 emissions reset the climate of the next several millennia can be found in the National Research Council Climate Stabilization Targets report, of which I was a co-author:

While additional analysis and policymaking will certainly be needed to meet 2050 goals, Greenblatt's study highlights the importance and potential of near - term action to work towards global climate stabilization targets.

The following is a brief sampling of reports that also may be downloaded free now, including the important Climate Stabilization Targets report:

C - FACT calls for companies to reduce GHG emissions in line with these scientific climate stabilization targets, and in proportion to companies» relative contribution to the economy.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the urgency of widespread participation in international emissions agreements hinges critically on the appropriate long - term climate stabilization target.

Much of the debate has focused on climate stabilization targets consistent with limiting CO2 concentrations to either 450 parts per million volume (ppmv) or 550 ppmv (currently, CO2 concentrations are 385 ppmv, compared with preindustrial levels of about 280 ppmv).

We started with the more moderate climate stabilization target for CO2 of 550 ppmv.

Climate Stabilization Targets emphasizes the importance of 21st century choices regarding long - term climate stabilization.

Renegotiating the global climate stabilization target.

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This report, «Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia,» provides a fresh degree - by - degree guide to impacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populations crest.

Together, these findings highlight unique seasonal and agricultural region changes in the +1.5 °C and +2.0 °C worlds for adaptation planning in these climate stabilization targets.

Solomon S, Battisti D, Doney S, Hayhoe K, Held I, Lettenmaier D, Lobell D, Matthews D, Pierrehumbert RT, Raphael M, Richels R, Root T, Steffen K, Tebaldi C and Yohe G 2010: Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations and Impacts over Decades to Millennia.

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia, a new report released by the National Research Council (the operational arm of the National Academy of Sciences) on July 16, starkly highlights the long - term global consequences of present - day... Continue reading →

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia (National Academies Press, 2011).

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia, a new report released by the National Research Council (the operational arm of the National Academy of Sciences) on July 16, starkly highlights the long - term global consequences of present - day choices about anthropogenic carbon emissions....

Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia

According to Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia, important policy decisions can be informed by recent advances in climate science that quantify the relationships between increases in carbon dioxide and global warming, related climate changes, and resulting impacts, such as changes in streamflow, wildfires, crop productivity, extreme hot summers, and sea level rise.

Read / Purchase the Report Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia (2011) Emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels have ushered in a new epoch where human activities will largely determine the evolution of Earth's climate.