"Catastrophic warming" refers to a situation where the Earth's temperature rises significantly and has severe and harmful effects on our planet and the living beings that inhabit it. It implies a rapid and extreme increase in global temperatures that can lead to dangerous consequences such as extreme weather events, rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and other environmental threats.
Full definition
But some environmentalists remain skeptical that offsets can reduce greenhouse gases to
avoid catastrophic warming of the atmosphere.
What this means is that 70 - 80 % or more of the warming
in catastrophic warming forecasts comes from feedback, not CO2 acting alone.
But, they argue, it's not the last step or perhaps even the most important step in what will be a long battle to
avoid catastrophic warming.
Countries» collective pledges toward a new international climate change agreement put the goal of
averting catastrophic warming within sight, a sweeping new U.N. report out today finds.
The IPCC make no specific claims for
catastrophic warming due to the effects of CO2 from man's emissions of GHG prior to the late 20th century.
From the Bank of England to the Pope, international government groups and the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, there's a growing push to phase out fossil fuels to save the world
from catastrophic warming.
Warren's piece is answering a completely different question: «What do you tell someone who believes in
catastrophic warming because everyone else seems to think it's true?»
Peter Whale says: August 14, 2010 at 11:25 am Could someone on either side of the debate give me what weather conditions over an agreed period of time, that would then turn the observations so that they could be called climate, which would then either
confirm catastrophic warming or confirm natural cause and variation =======================================================
Over what time period might this savannization process release carbon «equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions», and how does that affect the assessment offered by Gore, Hansen and others that we have perhaps ten years in which to substantially reduce CO2 emissions to avoid
irreversible catastrophic warming?
At the current rate of warming, we have about a century before a
possibly catastrophic warming occurs (2 degC more) so a modest, but not extreme, carbon tax wouldn't be unreasonable.
Branded the StratoShield it's owned by a firm named Intellectual Ventures, which markets the device as «a practical, low - cost way to
reverse catastrophic warming of the Arctic — or the entire planet.»
In order to
get catastrophic warming, like 5 degrees C / 100 yrs, you need.5 deg / decade — as much as occured during all of the 20th Century.
«I continue to believe that warming of Earth's surface temperatures from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases carries risks that society must take seriously,» he wrote, «even if we are lucky and (as my work seems to suggest) the most
catastrophic warming scenarios are a bit less likely.»
The theory of catastrophic man - made global warming has been tested from many independent angles -LSB-...] Read it all
Phrases with «catastrophic warming»