Sentences with phrase «as irreversible climate changes»

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This sector of Antarctica has long been identified as the most vulnerable to changes in climate and, according to recent assessments, its glaciers may have passed a point of irreversible retreat.

She said that the analysis she and co-authors did for a paper on «irreversible climate change» helped lead her, as a non-expert citizen when considering energy technology, to conclude that such research is vital, even as efforts are made to find successors to fossil fuels.

As for irreversible, if an ice sheet starts flowing, or if an albedo change from sea ice gets locked in, I could imagine a climate change being essentially irreversible even if CO2 was brought back down, but it's just speculation, nothing more.

Researchers such as James Hansen, a leading climate scientist at NASA, believe that global warming is accelerating and may be approaching a tipping point, a point at which climate change acquires a momentum that makes it irreversible.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

In one of the original climate lawsuits, filed in 2008 on behalf of the Alaskan village of Kivalina, the plaintiffs made the same claims as New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco — including the specific citation of «potentially irreversible» impacts and a «significant loss of life» as a result of climate change.

«We found that several vulnerable elements in Earth's climate system — like the Amazon and other big rain forests, like the great ice sheets that have so much sea level locked up in their ice — could be pushed toward abrupt or irreversible change if we go on toward 2100 with our business - as - usual increase in emissions of greenhouse gases,» he said.

Glaciers are very sensitive to temperature change and as a result of climate change, glaciers around the world are in irreversible retreat.

On the text on a large fraction of climate change being irreversible on a multi-century to millennial time scale, the Russian Federation observed that global warming was reversible as opposed to CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere that were not.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason to postpone such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective in order to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost.

In a sentence, here's what they found: On our current path, climate change could pose an irreversible, existential risk to civilization as we know it — but we can still fix it if we decide to work together.

WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a «fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation» not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.

The spewing of 110 million tonnes a day of heat - trapping pollution into the atmosphere — as if the atmosphere were an open sewer — is «increasing the likelihood,» says a warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems».

even in the best case scenario, business as usual fossil fuel burning will almost certainly commit us to more than 2C (3.6 F) warming, an amount of warming that scientists who study climate change impacts tell us will lead to truly dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (UN 1992a: Art 3, emphasis added).

The HFC phase - down will help slow climate change and sea level rise, as well as prevent the world from reaching irreversible climatic «tipping points.»

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says: «The more we disrupt our climate, the more we risk severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts.Climate Change says: «The more we disrupt our climate, the more we risk severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts.climate, the more we risk severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts.»

With warming greater than 2 °C, there is a high risk of abrupt and irreversible changes to ecosystems such as forests, which would lead to «substantial additional climate change» considering that trees sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a global temperature rise of great than 2C would result in irreversible damage to society, including «increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought» as well as other compounding climate iClimate Change (IPCC) a global temperature rise of great than 2C would result in irreversible damage to society, including «increasingly dangerous forest fires, extreme weather, drought» as well as other compounding climate iclimate impacts.

The overarching justification for most climate change policies today derives from a political interpretation of Principle 15 (now called the Precautionary Principle) of the United Nations Rio Declaration of 1992, which states: «Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.»

A 550 world dramatically increases the likelihood of catastrophes and runaway climate change, such as an irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet resulting in sea - level rise of 7 metres.

With concerted effort, the United States and China can work with the 111 countries already committed to a phase - down under the Montreal Protocol, to slow climate change and sea level rise, as well as prevent the world from reaching irreversible climatic «tipping points.»

Yet as we said at the time, this highly ambiguous statement made it into the headlines — with the help of senior IPCC members — as a statement that «The IPCC states that climate change is «unequivocal» and may bring «abrupt and irreversible» impacts».

We also underestimated the potential importance of strong feedbacks, such as the thawing of the permafrost to release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as well as tipping points beyond which some changes in the climate may become effectively irreversible.»

It's what Joe Romm at Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which, if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an irreversible path to catastrophic climate climate change.

Whether you (or Edim) personally want to worry about these things is up to you, my point is that there are plenty of potential effects of climate change which would not fall into the «abrupt and irreversible» category but could still cause big problems if they occur, so just because the particular outcomes the IPCC classifies as such may not happen this century it doesn't logically mean we won't suffer serious impacts in the shorter term.

But we consider it to be our responsibility as professionals to ensure, to the best of our ability, that people understand what we know: human - caused climate change is happening, we face risks of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes, and responding now will lower the risk and cost of taking action.

[ii] The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

Several vulnerable elements in the climate system, such as continental ice sheets, Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon, and others, could be pushed towards abrupt or irreversible change if warming continues in a business - as - usual way throughout this century.

From 1.5 degree, climate change would already enter a nonlinear evolution stage, with irreversible global effects, particularly hostile to life as a whole.