Sentences with phrase «global average levels»

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Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

«It is highly unlikely that coral reefs will survive more than a two degree increase in average global temperature relative to pre-industrial levels,» he said.

Meanwhile, global oil stockpiles in developed countries could actually fall below the five - year average — the level OPEC is targeting — as inventories approach normal levels, oil demand potentially outstrips Goldman's estimate and OPEC possibly cuts output too deeply.

The global average for anxiety was 71 %, although some regions polled significantly higher than others in terms of overall anxiety levels.

Sea levels in Japan will rise 10 to 20 % faster than the global average.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that an average of 800,000 barrels per day in production were taken offline last month, contributing greatly to May's having the highest monthly level of unplanned global oil supply disruptions since the agency began tracking such data in 2011.

«The Shanghai Composite in aggregate is now trading back well below average global equity valuations at the headline index level,» says Jonathan Garner, Morgan Stanley's Chief Asia and Emerging Market Equity Strategist.

We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like global temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.

The investment bank also notes that 70 per cent of fund managers view the global economy as «late - cycle,» the highest level since January 2008 and expect, on average, an S&P 500 peak of 3,100, which is 16 per cent higher than its level at the time of writing.

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2010 the 16th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Cancun, Mexico and recognized that deep cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions were required, with a goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions so as to hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels;

WHEREAS, in furtherance of the united effort to address the effects of climate change, in 2015 the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCC met in Paris, France and entered into a historic agreement in which 195 nations, including the United States, were signatories and agreed to determine their own target contribution to mitigate climate change by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, among other terms (the «Paris Agreement»);

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

The team found that results from the two methods roughly matched and showed that Greenland is losing enough ice to contribute on average 0.46 millimetres per year to global sea - level rise.

On Dec. 12, 2015, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations of the world to «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

January's mark of 1.4 °C, put the global average temperature change from early industrial levels for the first three months of 2016 at 1.48 °C.

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

The Paris Agreement sets the goal of holding the increase in the global average mean temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels but calls for efforts to limit that increase to 1.5 °C.

A U.N. Environment Program report released last week showed that, taken together, the NDCs only account for a third of the necessary emissions reductions needed to keep global average temperatures from heating 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.

Many governments believe that holding the average global temperature rise caused by man - made warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels gives the world the best chance to avoid dangerous climate change.

It also reviews recent scientific literature on «worst - case» global average sea - level projections and on the potential for rapid ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica.

About 460 million years ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ranged somewhere between 14 and 22 times the current level, and the average global temperature was about 5 °C higher than it is now.

Bangladeshis have watched high tides rise 10 times faster than the global average, and sea levels there could increase as much as 13 feet by 2100.

The report's authors, who also include scientists from federal agencies, Columbia University and the South Florida Water Management District, concluded that evidence supports a «worst - case» global average sea - level rise of about 8.2 feet by 2100.

Since 1990 rainfall has returned to the Sahel at levels slightly below the 1900 to 1993 average, according to Global Historical Climatology Network data.

According to the authors, who are based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, the World Health Organization, Switzerland, and the University of Edinburgh, UK, «Despite remarkable progress at the level of global averages, at national level, MDG 4 will not be achieved in most countries in 2015.

Even if global warming is limited to these levels, changes in regional temperatures (and therefore climate change impacts) can vary significantly from the global average.

We have been improving on that score, with a global average of 2.5 births per woman, about half the level of six decades ago.

For example, New York City is expected to see regional sea levels rise as much as 30 percent more than the global average.

As a result, the region is already experiencing levels of acidity three-fold greater than the global ocean average, with devastating impacts on the state's US$ 270 - million shellfish industry.

But it will take a couple of years — until about 2016, Tans estimates — for annual global - average CO2 levels to surpass 400 ppm.

Global average sea level has risen by roughly 0.11 inch (3 millimeters) per year since 1993 due to a combination of water expanding as it warms and melting ice sheets.

The report finds that the U.S. is particularly vulnerable to projected sea level rise; areas such as the Northeast and western Gulf of Mexico could face rates that exceed global average sea level rise.

Limiting increases in global average temperatures to a 3.6 F target would require significant reductions in carbon pollution levels and ultimately eliminating net greenhouse gas emissions altogether, the report says.

Too much debate treats temperature (and especially the most recent global average) as the sole indicator, whereas many other factors are at play including sea levels, ocean acidity, ice sheets, ecosystem trends, and many more.

In scenarios in which the average global temperature rises less than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, short - term measures to reduce SLCF had only a minor effect on the long - term rise in temperature.

In its annual analysis of trends in global carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lglobal carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lGlobal Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lglobal average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Of course, while short - term changes in sea level can be predicted fairly accurately based on the motions of the moon and sun, it is a lot harder predicting the ups and downs of the average global surface temperature — there is a lot of noise, or natural variation, in the system.

In November 2017, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced that the year was likely to rank second hottest, noting that average global temperatures from January to September peaked above preindustrial levels by 1.98 degrees F (1.1 degrees C), Live Science previously reported.

The increase in carbon dioxide levels recorded so far has played the most important role in pushing average global temperatures up by 1 °C (1.8 °F) during the last 200 years.

This is probably why we've seen a leveling - off [of global average temperatures] in the past five or so years.

But in mid-2010, scientists noticed a curious trend: For the first time in two decades, global average sea level began dropping.

The reduction in the ice mass has contributed to global average sea - level rise of 25 millimeters.

It is well - established in the scientific community that increases in atmospheric CO2 levels result in global warming, but the magnitude of the effect may vary depending on average global temperature.

«They show that it is technically feasible to achieve a central goal in global climate policy: Namely, to limit average global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius compared to the level at the beginning of the Industrial Era.»

The best way to do that was placing monitoring equipment far from population centers, where CO2 streaming from power plants, automobiles and other infrastructure could skew attempts to determine the average global level of CO2.

The subsidence is causing local sea levels to rise nearly 100 times faster than the global average.

An international team of 27 oceanographers churned through 13 global models and concluded that carbon dioxide emissions could cause pH levels in the ocean to drop from an average of 8.1 today to 7.7 by the end of the century.