Sentences with phrase «because paleoclimate data»

Really, it's because the paleoclimate data is pointing to the 3C per doubling of CO2 as being a pretty good number.

The need for prompt (urgent) action implied by these realities may not be a surprise to the relevant scientific community, because paleoclimate data revealed high climate sensitivity and the dominance of amplifying feedbacks.

And that is a very bad thing, because paleoclimate data tells us that the Pliocene regime 5 mil years ago had 15 meter higher sea level.

Not exact matches

The detailed temporal and geographical response of the climate system to the rapid human - made change of climate forcings is not well - constrained by empirical data, because there is no faithful paleoclimate analog.

Paleoclimate data are not as helpful for defining the likely rate of sea level rise in coming decades, because there is no known case of growth of a positive (warming) climate forcing as rapid as the anthropogenic change.

Hansen and Sato (2012), using paleoclimate data rather than models of recent and expected climate change, warn that «goals of limiting human made warming to 2 °C and CO2 to 450 ppm are prescriptions for disaster» because significant tipping points — where significant elements of the climate system move from one discrete state to another — will be crossed.

As far as # 2 goes, ice core data is used for recent paleoclimate data on CO2 concentration, nothing much earlier than about 1000 years ago, because of the errors inherent in the ice core data.

Second, because the geologic record has both temporal and geographic limitations in terms of coverage, more accurate climate models could provide paleoclimate interpretations where sedimentological data are limited (i.e., in frontier exploration areas).