Sentences with phrase «average global temperature increase»

I'm not predicting this, but what if average global temperature increased 0.5 degrees in the next twenty years?

Governments adopted a comprehensive package of decisions — including an agreement to initiate a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol and the «Durban Platform» to negotiate a long - term, all inclusive future mitigation regime that includes a process to address the «ambition gap» for stabilizing average global temperature increases at 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.

According to the Paris Agreement, global emissions must peak by 2020 and then start declining if we want to keep average global temperature increase under 2 ° Celsius.

Temperatures at the Antarctic Peninsula have increased by 2.5 degrees Celsius over the last 50 years, warming that is much faster than the concurrent average global temperature increase.

The Commonwealth declaration avoided setting a numerical limit to global temperature rise, saying only, «We stress our common conviction that urgent and substantial action to reduce global emissions is needed and have a range of views as to whether average global temperature increase should be constrained to below 1.5 degrees or to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

Earth's average global temperature increased during the 20th century and many scientists predict that this warming trend will continue throughout the 21st century.

The measure asked Exxon potential risks of «technology changes and from climate change policies such as the 2015 accord aiming to keep average global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius,» Reuters reported in May.

Its greenhouse - amplifying effect is built into the supercomputer climate models, and their predicted average global temperature increase would be substantially less without it.

They are discouraged by UN officials» pre-conference resignation that the likely agreement will not keep emissions below the 2 - degree average global temperature increase that scientists say is a critical point (much less the 1.5 - degree limit that countries in the most vulnerable situations, especially small islands, have demanded).

Addressing these emissions will be critical if we are to achieve the UNFCCC goal of limiting average global temperature increases and climate change.

«The results show that the extreme sea levels observed during Hurricane Katrina will become ten times more likely if average global temperatures increase by 2 °C», said Dr Jevrejeva.

Drafted in December 2015, the Paris climate agreement's main goal is to limit the average global temperature increase to below 2C (3.6 F).

The 2015 accord aims to limit the average global temperature increase to below 2C (3.6 F) and permits all 195 countries involved to create their own goals for addressing rising temperatures.

The deal aims to limit the average global temperature increase to below 2C (3.6 F), allowing each country to create its own goals and targets for addressing rising global temperatures.

His figures from 147 weather stations around the world showed that average global temperatures increased by 0.59 F from 1880 to 1935 — double what he had predicted based on increasing carbon dioxide.

These are, respectively, the upper «safe» concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and the upper «safe» limit of average global temperature increase.

The study, published in the June 30 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, was based on an average global temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered a relatively conservative estimate and the limit needed to avert catastrophic impacts.

For more than a decade, IPCC scientists have warned that many people will suffer greatly if Earth's average global temperature increases by more than 2 ° Celsius (3.6 ° Fahrenheit) over what was typical before the Industrial Revolution.

According to the Paris Agreement, global emissions must peak by 2020 and then start declining if we want to keep the average global temperature increase under 2 ° Celsius.

Increase investment in transformational technology R&D Limiting average global temperature increases to below 2 °C will require rapidly accelerated innovation and diffusion of clean energy technologies in both developed and developing countries.

Climatology is the most simple - minded science imaginable: all of the graphs are a straight lines going up over time at a 45 ° angle whether it's showing average sea level rise, average increase in atmospheric CO2, average global temperature increases or the number of green jobs secular, socialist governments have created.

The Accord set the goal of keeping greenhouse gas emissions below the threshold that would lead to an average global temperature increase of more than 2 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial average.

During the entire 20th century, the average global temperature increased by about 0.6 degrees Celsius (slightly more than 1 degree Fahrenheit).

«Average global temperature increases, geographically, at a linear rate from 60 ° N or S latitude towards the equator, but levels off between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn,» Robert Colwell of the University of Connecticut, US, co-author of a recent paper in Science, told environmentalresearchweb.

If climate ambition is not raised progressively, it is estimated that the path set by the INDCs would be consistent with an average global temperature increase of around 2.7 degrees Celsius (°C) by 2100, falling short of limiting the increase to no more than 2 °C.

Between 1985 and 2012, CO2 increased from 345 to 395 ppm, and the average global temperature increased by 0.3 — 0.4 deg C. Due to the higher temp, the outgoing radiation from earth increased over a wide spectral range (3 - 50microns).

COP21, the landmark global climate deal discussed in Paris last year, set two critical temperature goals in an attempts to curb the catastrophic consequences of climate change: Cap the average global temperature increase at two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; and try to limit warming to about 1.5 degrees Celsius to stave off global warming's devastating effects.

The most important question in climate science is climate sensitivity, by how much will the average global temperature increase if you say double the amount of CO2.

- The 2 °C Scenario (2DS) lays out an energy system pathway and a CO2 emissions trajectory consistent with at least a 50 % chance of limiting the average global temperature increase to 2 °C by 2100.

And all this must be accomplished while meeting the pollution - cutting objectives of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which calls for limiting average global temperature increases to «well below» 2 °C elsius.

Ultimately, the latest scientific understanding of climate change allied with current emission trends and a commitment to «limiting average global temperature increases to below 4C above pre-industrial levels», demands a radical reframing of both the climate change agenda, and the economic characterization of contemporary society.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has today announced that global CO2 emissions reached a record high in 2010, making the prospect of limiting the average global temperature increase to 2ºC seem remote.

• No adaptive responses to coral bleaching, even on a regional scale, will be available if average global temperature increases 2 °C by 2050.

ExxonMobil admits that the emissions trajectory of its Outlook for Energy (which does not extend to 2100) «closely approximates in shape» an emissions profile of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that «would result in an average global temperature increase of approximately 2.4 °C by 2100 from the industrial age.»

It is important to note that this scenario analysis uses a capacity factor of 50 % and is based on a 50 % chance of limiting the average global temperature increase to 2 °C.

To prove this, we developed a short - term scenario analysing the 2020 targets in the 13th five - year plan (13 FYP) and a long - term scenario analysing the implications of limiting the average global temperature increase to 2 °C.

For the scientific community, the answer is clear — if, as a society, we hope to keep the average global temperature increase from reaching dangerous levels (i.e. keeping the increase below 2 degrees C) then dramatic change is necessary, the sooner the better.