Sentences with phrase «avoiding dangerous climate»

A brief analysis based on multi-gas emission pathways and several climate sensitivity uncertainty estimates», Avoiding dangerous climate change, in H.J. Schellnhuber et al. (eds.)

The conference last week in Exeter on «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» grew out of a speech by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

In 2005 the UK Government hosted the Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change conference to take an in - depth look at the scientific issues associated with climate change.

>> Avoiding dangerous climate change is no longer possible.

Advisors to the British government and others have suggested that 450 or even 400ppm of CO2 may be nearer the mark (see, for example, Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Schellnhuber et al, and Can 2C warming be avoided?

«The value of fossil fuel companies is dependent on reserves of oil, coal, and natural gas — reserves that must remain in the ground for us to have any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change.

For the best chance of avoiding dangerous climate change, McKibben estimates that budget at around 500 gigatonnes — a budget that the world will exhaust within 15 years at its current rate.

Consider, for example, that Lowe, et al. [in Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, H.J. Schellnhuber et al. (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, p. 32 - 33], based on a «pessimistic, but plausible, scenario in which atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were stabilised at four times pre-industrial levels,» estimated that a collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet would over the next 1,000 years raise sea level by 2.3 meters (with a peak rate of 0.5 mm / yr).

Government plans that include serious restrictions on the use of coal and unconventional fossil fuels have a chance at being compatible with avoiding dangerous climate change, while those that treat this as a side issue do not.

Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature.

Long the maximum ceiling acceptable to many scientists and environmental advocates, «2 degrees» has now been semi-enshrined as the consensus «magic number» for avoiding dangerous climate change.

With her colleague Robert Corell, Susan contributed a chapter that summarized the key findings of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment to the peer - reviewed book Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.

Avoiding dangerous climate destabilization requires a Plan B: reducing global net carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by 2020.

The world's population could live a prosperous, European - style lifestyle by 2050 at the same time as avoiding dangerous climate change, according to a new Global Calculator developed by the UK's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC).

It is quite plain to me that stopping nuclear power has a higher priority than avoiding dangerous climate change for some people.

In an effort to quantify how much more carbon the atmosphere can tolerate while giving us a decent chance of avoiding dangerous climate change, researchers talk about «carbon budgets.»

Avoiding dangerous climate change requires ambitious action to deeply reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the international, national, and local community levels.

Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, H.J. Schellnhuber, W. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T. Wigley, and G. Yohe (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

* The International Energy Agency recently found that the costs of avoiding dangerous climate change may be three times higher than those estimated by the IPCC in 2007.

Benny Peiser wrote that at the UK Met Office's Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change conference,

Avoiding dangerous climate change requires a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

As we have previously explained in EthicsandClimate.org there is now a scientific consensus that developed countries must limit their ghg emissions by as much as 25 % to 40 % below 1990 emissions levels by 2020 and between 80 % and 95 % below1990 levels by 2050 to have any reasonable chance of avoiding dangerous climate change which would require atmospheric ghg concentrations to be stabilized at 450 ppm.

org, US reductions need to be much greater than average reduction levels required of the entire world as a matter of equity because the United States emissions are among the world's highest in terms of per capita and historical emissions and there is precious little atmospheric space remaining for additional ghg emissions if the world is serious about avoiding dangerous climate change.

Many of these demands are familiar noises about «avoiding dangerous climate change», meeting Millennium Development Goals, and increasing the efficiency of productive activity.

Schnellnhuber, H. J., W. P. Cramer, N. Nakicenovic, T. Wigley, and G. Yohe, 2006: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change.

What scale does CCS need to reach if it to play its part in avoiding dangerous climate change?

Avoiding dangerous climate change is still possible but will cost more than twice as much if we don't have plenty of carbon capture and storage (CCS).

These omissions included: (a) the lack of recognition that dependence on natural gas as a bridge fuel for reducing the US carbon footprint raises several ethical questions, a matter reviewed here in detail, (b) acknowledgment of the US special responsibility for climate change for its unwillingness to take action on climate change for over 20 years since it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, see, The World Waits In Vain For US Ethical Climate Change Leadership As the World Warms, and, (c) failing to communicate the extreme urgency of quickly and significantly reducing ghg emissions in the next few years to give the world any hope of avoiding dangerous climate change, see, On the Extraordinary Urgency of Nations Responding To Climate Change on the Basis of Equity.

Maybe Willis might like to consider perusing the British publication «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» as it outlines many of the concerns associated with global warming.

But for the past four years, even though negotiators have never arrived at a plan for avoiding dangerous climate change, they have agreed on a goal: limiting the increase in the Earth's global average surface temperature to 2 °C (3.6 °F) above the preindustrial level.

Say global emissions must peak by 2020 to have any chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.

The 35 year delay in taking significant action has made the task of avoiding dangerous climate change increasingly more challenging.

The 450 ppm level is considered to be the point at which the world has a 50 per cent chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.

Avoiding dangerous climate change will require a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

«[The research] demonstrates that proposed technological solutions, like CDR, to the problems of global warming and ocean acidification are no substitute for reducing carbon emissions, which remains the safest and most reliable path for avoiding dangerous climate change.»

Avoiding dangerous climate change by reducing fossil - fuel emissions becomes more difficult once permafrost emissions are properly considered.

The conference, called Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change: A Scientific Symposium on Stabilization of Greenhouse Gases, took place at the invitation of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair and under the sponsorship of the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

The title of one of your linked papers is «Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature».

• James Hansen (and many colleagues) Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature.

Avoiding dangerous climate change would require a lot more effort, and achieving a «safe» concentration of greenhouse gases (likely to be under 350 ppm CO2) would require some carbon already resident in the atmosphere to be returned to earth.

While critical for avoiding dangerous climate change, because of the way that gas leaks are currently under - accounted for in the Commonwealth's emissions inventory, fixing them does little to address Global Warming Solutions Act compliance.

Avoiding dangerous climate change is possible, technologically and economically.

The urgency for action is underpinned by climate science and the window of opportunity for avoiding dangerous climate change is rapidly closing.

The world needs better odds than a coin toss of avoiding dangerous climate change

The gap between 179 countries» modest, but creditable, emissions pledges so far and any reasonable trajectory toward avoiding dangerous climate change is huge, as I wrote recently.

As of today, the «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» is in session at the Hadley Centre.

Kevin Anderson thinks that avoiding dangerous climate change means shrinking economies.

And in common with all other climate pledges so far, its INDC remains well short of what would be required to meet the agreed 2C target for avoiding dangerous climate change.

If adopted, the Paris agreement will become the first concrete step on our collective way towards avoiding dangerous climate change.

There was a conference held at the begining of this year that went over this sort of thing, it was subtitled «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» and you can find the presentation [slides] that were presented at http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html There's a lot of interesting things about possible thresholds, stabilisation levels for CO2 and emission reduction pathways and the potential costs.