Sentences with phrase «avoiding dangerous interference»
Limiting warming to 2C is a laudable aspiration — one that gives us a decent chance (not certainty) of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system.
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Mann said of the possible record, «hopefully it will also drive home the urgency of reducing carbon emissions if we are to avoid dangerous interference with our climate.»
«There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual,» said Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a co-chair of the report.
Not exact matches
The signatories to the convention have agreed to stabilise greenhouse gases at concentrations «that would avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».
«On Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System: Formidable Challenges Ahead.»
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.
To my mind, the sessions and negotiations, despite the zombie - like quality, do encourage, display and memorialize countries» efforts to live up to their 1992 pledge to avoid dangerous human interference with the climate system.
[Andy Revkin — The Article 2 mentioned above is the statement on avoiding «dangerous» human interference with climate in the original climate treaty, which was completed at the Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992.
One provision of that treaty is that countries pledge to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases at a level avoiding «dangerous» interference with the climate system.
But despite pledging to avoid «dangerous» interference with the climate system through the buildup of greenhouse gases, the 192 countries that ratified that treaty are still on a trajectory to more than double the pre-industrial concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in this century.
(3) From the supporting perspective article: «All this would be very bad news if avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system required us to specify today a stabilization concentration of carbon dioxide (or equivalent) for which the risk of dangerous warming is acceptably low.
8:00 p.m. Updated Today saw the official opening in Cancún, Mexico, of talks over a new treaty aimed, theoretically, at avoiding dangerous human interference with the climate system.
The UNFCCC, through its Conference of Parties, tries to negotiate, and make legally binding, pathways towards lower emissions of greenhouse gases, to avoid «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»
Judith: I happen to agree that Article II of the UNFCCC (stabilization to avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference) may not have been the most helpful way to phrase the problem.
Further, the probabilistic approach reveals a picture startling to even most global - warming pessimists: If we're to avoid precipitating what that U.N. Framework Convention genteelly calls «dangerous anthropogenic interference,» we're going to have to aim at an atmospheric greenhouse - gas concentration target that, by current trends, we'll reach in less than two decades.
Stabilization of climate to avoid «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system», as called for in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, will require significant cutbacks in greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century; and
Hence, avoiding dangerous levels of CO2 - induced warming is a necessary, albeit not always sufficient, condition for avoiding potentially dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system.
The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, just after saying that countries should avoid such dangerous interference with the climate, adds that atmospheric greenhouse gas levels should be stabilized «within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change.»
A recent international modelling comparison exercise (Edenhofer et al., 2006) has shown that ITC not only has the potential to reduce mitigation costs substantially but that it is also essential to the stabilization of concentration levels of CO2, avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference.
Specifying «increasing sink capacity», or increasing the capacity to remove GHGs (that is, greenhouse gas removal, or «GHGR») as a separate category allows us to distinguish two separate stages in the process of avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference that are usually bundled together under the term «mitigation».
«On Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System: Formidable Challenges Ahead.»
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.
Concerned about appropriate temperature targets to avoid the impending climate Apocalypse; well, we'll just post an article by Knopf stating «many of these issues can not be answered solely by science, such as the question of a temperature level that avoids dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system».
Last year, Ramanathan and co-author Y. Feng published a remarkable paper in PNAS called «On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead «-RRB-.