Sentences with phrase «current warming rate»
The «second order» review draft of the SPM for the Working Group II volume said «If current warming rates are maintained Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates, shrinking from the present 500,000 km2 to 100,000 km2 by the 2030s.»
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If current warming rates are maintained, Himalayan glaciers could decay at very rapid rates, shrinking from the present 500,000 km2 to 100,000 km2 by the 2030s.
If one assumes that the current warming rate will simply continue, which is possible but by no means assured, then the Earth's long - term temperature change will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, by 2040, and the 2 - degree guardrail by 2065.
Current warming rate is over.6 C per decade.