Sentences with phrase «stabilization targets for»

The book quantifies the outcomes of different stabilization targets for greenhouse gas concentrations using analyses and information drawn from the scientific literature.

When it was a standing committee (until December 2010), the CRC convened a number of forums focused on emerging issues of interest to the climate science and policy communities and was instrumental in developing several important NRC activities, including the America's Climate Choices suite of activities, the study on Stabilization Targets for Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, and a study on short - term (intraseasonal to interannual) climate predictability.

The report of Susan Solomon's National Research Council Committee on Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations is the place to go to see a collection of impacts that have already been observed and will be amplified as the climate changes in ways that have been quantitatively estimated.

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

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The National Academy of Sciences, for its part, has convened an expert panel to deliver a verdict on the appropriate «stabilization targets» for the nation, a report expected to be delivered by summer 2010.

«This group of technologies is essential for low stabilization targets,» Edenhofer said.

«If the true climate sensitivity really is as high as 5 degrees C -LSB-(9 degrees F)-RSB-, the only way our descendants will find that out is if they stubbornly hold greenhouse gas concentrations constant for centuries at our target stabilization level.»

Treatment for substance use disorders may incorporate a combination of group, family, and individual therapy targeted at medical stabilization, reducing the severity of the patient's symptoms, and providing tools, ongoing support, and resources to prevent relapse and address co-occurring symptoms.

A large ensemble of Earth system model simulations, constrained by geological and historical observations of past climate change, demonstrates our self ‐ adjusting mitigation approach for a range of climate stabilization targets ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 °C, and generates AMP scenarios up to year 2300 for surface warming, carbon emissions, atmospheric CO2, global mean sea level, and surface ocean acidification.

The nonprofit group is pushing world leaders to accept 350 parts per million as the safe target for stabilization of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

You ought to try reading some of the literature sometime, including the National Research Council report on climate stabilization targets, available free for just clicking on the link.

It is findings like these that cause me to take a different stance on climate progress than Joe Romm, who demands that anyone seriously engaged in assessing climate policy pick a number — either for a safe target for stabilization of carbon dioxide concentrations or temperature rise.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

[In 2001, scientists at Princeton's Carbon Mitigation Initiative became famous for proposing a set of «climate stabilization wedges» — efficiency, wind, solar, etc. — to bring emissions down beneath global targets.]

All of this suggests that a stabilization target of 550 ppm CO2e could be disastrous for the earth as we know it as well as its people.

Instead of raising emission targets to meet the official UN 2 degree climate target (that IPCC AR4 connects to the 450ppm stabilization level — industrialized nations need to reduce their emissions by 25 - 40 % between 1990 en 2020) some Annex1 countries actually lowered their (intended) reduction targets for the crucial year of 2020.

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.

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.

Do you yourself believe that a statement like» The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human - induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets» is self - evident and does not need any support to back it up?

In your original post you stated: «The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human - induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets.»

See the recent NAS 2011 report on «Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations and Impacts over Decades to Millennia» for example.

How much of a problem is delayed participation by developing countries in terms of raising the overall burden of global mitigation costs, and what does this imply for appropriate near - term emissions pricing goals for the United States, if eventual targets for global stabilization are still to be met?

Romm assumes that a stabilization level of 450 ppm for CO2 is the correct target.

Last year, James Hansen of GISS and Columbia University said that we may have already exceeded the maximum safe threshold for CO2 in atmosphere — we're presently at approximately 387 parts - per - million (ppm) and Hansen said that we needed to target 350 ppm as the stabilization threshold, not 450 - 500 as recommended in the last IPCC assessment report.

I'm talking about statements like... «The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human - induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets.»

Do you really think that's the same as saying «The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human - induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets?»

We conclude that targets for the long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse - gas concentrations aimed at preventing a dangerous human interference with the climate system should take into account this higher sensitivity of the Earth system.

The 350 campaign was one of the biggest, for by the end of the melee - cum - jamboree, the 350 ppm target, which once seemed so obscure, had become an object of plain speech, had been endorsed by 112 countries, and had in many ways supplanted the 2C temperature target as the mark and measure of true climate stabilization.

Click here to obtain permission for Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia.

While some stabilization targets are out of reach without intentional sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere, 280 ppm, for example, some targets below the current 400 ppm still require more emissions to get to stabilization.

The IPCC has just issued a new summary for policy makers for a forthcoming special report on renewable energy that appears (indirectly and obliquely) to finally admit that we just do not have the technology necessary to achieve low targets for the stabilization of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (e.g., something like 450 ppm).

What does he really think of Hansen's view that the foundation of the Obama Adminstration's policy on climate, i.e. some target level of CO2 at stabilization above 450 ppm, is, «a recipe for global disaster»?

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Targeting photography lovers, the Zenfone 3 Laser uses a 13MP camera with a Sony sensor and supports electronic image stabilization for enhanced video recording.

The use of ego - state interventions for stabilization, EMDR target selection, identification and resolution of internal conflicts, titration of information processing, as well as provide clients» with internal resources.