Sentences with phrase «warming mitigation efforts»

In his 1992 «Earth in the Balance» book, Al Gore refers to his Harvard professor, oceanographer Dr. Roger Revelle, as an inspiration to pursue global warming mitigation efforts.

This, coming from a historian who apparently needs some kind of time travel ability in order for her tale to be plausible regarding her discovery of who her «tobacco - associated critics» were, and this overall concern coming from a side of the issue which doesn't merely believe global warming mitigation efforts are just a sensible thing to do, there's a moral imperative to stop those who are committing crimes against humanity.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).

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A unprecedented effort to set aside huge swathes of Canada's boreal forest includes — for the first time — global warming mitigation as a key objective

In addition to a business - as - usual scenario, the team ran its simulations under two mitigation scenarios, previously proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in which efforts are made to mitigate global warming to 2 and 3 degrees Celsius, relative to pre-industrial times.

Our study of the faster increases in apparent temperature has produced important findings for this kind of climate change impact assessment, providing a strong scientific support for more stringent and effective climate change mitigation efforts to combat global warming.»

As a consequence, mitigation efforts to minimize future greenhouse - gas emissions can successfully restrict future warming to a level that may avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

Such a feedback loop could result in accelerated warming throughout the globe, which will strongly impact ongoing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.

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China's role as a promoter of renewable energy development in Africa can offer it valuable recognition as a contributor to global efforts towards the mitigation of climate change and can serve to reaffirm its position as a lead nation among developing countries, protecting vulnerable countries from the impacts of global warming and fostering their economic growth and development in the process.12

But in the meantime, while we are still uncertain that AGW is causing the warming and Arctic sea ice loss, let's do more work to reduce uncertainties, but hold off on any costly mitigation actions that may be a total waste of resources and effort.

«The special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming focuses on a crucial topic: «Loss and damage» which refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts,» Editor - in - Chief Ibrahim Dincer of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology says.

An open access special issue of the International Journal of Global Warming brings together, for the first time, empirical evidence of loss and damage from the perspective of affected people in nine vulnerable countries...... «Loss and damage» refers to adverse effects of climate variability and climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation efforts.

One thing that stopped me in my tracks was an image - the photo of smog in China - and I invite you to visit www.thegreatwarming.com to see what we've been able to accomplish by combining solid science from IPCC, NOAA, NCAR, ICC and more with visually arresting global stories about warming and mitigation efforts.

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

These are the «fast acting» efforts that can yield critical near - term reductions in warming while delivering substantial co-benefits that justify the relatively modest costs of mitigation.

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

International efforts to address climate change have focused on reducing the amount of warming greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, or mitigation.

The relatively slow response of glaciers to global warming means it will take to the end of the century — and beyond — to see the benefits of mitigation efforts in the coming decades, the study says.

Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience (Read it in Issuu, Scribd, Open Knowledge Repository) takes the climate discussion to the next level, building on a 2012 World Bank report that concluded from a global perspective that without a clear mitigation strategy and effort, the world is headed for average temperatures 4 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times by the end of this century.

As a consequence, mitigation efforts to minimize future greenhouse - gas emissions can successfully restrict future warming to a level that may avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.

That is, there is still a fair chance that we can «hold the 2 °C line», if strong mitigation of greenhouse gases is combined with the following three actions: (i) a slow, rather than instant, elimination of aerosol cooling, (ii) a directed effort to first remove warming aerosols like black carbon, and (iii) a concerted and sustained programme, over this century, to draw - down excessive CO2 (geo - and bio-engineering) and simultaneously reduce non-CO2 forcings, such that the final equilibrium temperature rise will be lower than would otherwise be expected on the basis of current concentrations.

One other thing to consider: In general, efforts at mitigation do a better job of assigning more of the costs of dealing with global warming to the the people who have contributed more to in - the - pipeline global warming.

The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.

At least 10 House Republicans will sign on to a resolution today committing to work «constructively» to address climate change, «including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact» on warming.

* We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.