Sentences with phrase «case warming projection»

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This is the menu of potential but largely untested ways to counteract global warming resulting from the buildup of greenhouse gases, should reality start to reflect worst - case projections.

The result is intensifying debate over what is still widely viewed as a last - ditch option should worst - case projections of warming pan out.

Climate projections based on energy - economic emissions scenarios show that, in the best case, warming will peak close to 1.5 C by mid-century before slowly declining to below this level.

We can therefore again compare the Scenario A2 multi-model global surface warming projections to the observed warming, in this case since 2000, when the AR4 model simulations began (Figure 9).

So, once we clear away the underbrush, we can see that the case for a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade emissions rationing system is really that it would be a hedge against the risk that actual damages from warming would be much, much worse than current risk - adjusted projections indicate.

In any case, as the 2013 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report showed, the observed global surface warming remains within the range of climate model projections.

While the lofty goal of the landmark Paris climate agreement was to prevent global temperatures from rising 2 °C, it's increasingly unlikely the world will pull that off (see «Global warming's worst - case projections look increasingly likely»).

I should also point out that there is a difference between a projection and a prediction, but given the short time scales here and the amount of warming «in the pipeline» already it's probably not germane in this case.

It remains true that Earth has warmed more than 1 degree farenheit degrees over last century largely due to the buildup of human - made greenhouse gases... it remains the case that the projections of future climate change are every bit of discouraging as they were before the recent flap began.»

In the latter case, the alternative relative SST measure in the lower panel does not change very much over the 21st century, even with substantial Atlantic warming projections from climate models, because, crucially, the warming projected for the tropical Atlantic in the models is not very different from that projected for the tropics as a whole.

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