Sentences with phrase «avert dangerous warming»

That's the finding of a pair of related reports released yesterday by an international group of climate science and policy luminaries who warned that the window is closing to avert dangerous warming.

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That's an incredibly aggressive goal but one some scientists say is the only way that the world can avert global warming of more than 2 °C — the European Union has determined that's a prudent limit to «avoid dangerous anthropogenic warming,» in the United Nations parlance.

While world leaders — and this NCAR study — suggest prompt action can still avert the worst consequences, a majority of scientists polled at a major international conference last month told the paper they fear society is incapable of such action and faces dangerous warming.

WHEN it comes to avoiding dangerous rises in sea level, every little bit of global warming we can avert will make a difference.

Pope Francis is to make history this week with a call for international cooperation to avert dangerous global warming — the Vatican's most powerful statement yet on the environment and climate change.

It's clear that momentum is building on this issue, but widespread action is needed to avert dangerous climate warming.

Global carbon emissions are actually on the decline, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise, and we achieved a monumental international agreement in Paris last December that promises to help steer us onto a path that just may avert dangerous 2C planetary warming.

In a recent study, Sillman and colleagues tried to dispel the notion that dangerous climate change can be averted with the two - degree cap on warming.