Sentences with phrase «dangerous future climate»

Copenhagen conference fails to negotiate binding agreements: end of hopes of avoiding dangerous future climate change.

As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced in coming years, BECCS and other negative emissions technologies are looked to as a means of avoiding dangerous future climate scenarios by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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But he took issue with Labour's Emily Thornberry who contended that that Trump's election as U.S. president was a «hugely dangerous development for the future of our planet» because he believes that climate change is a hoax.

Few operate at commercial scales today, and some researchers fear they offer policymakers a dangerous excuse to drag their feet on climate action in the hopes that future inventions will clean up the mess.

People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it comes to climate change, according to new Princeton research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The high - carbon alternative, the report warns, will lock the world into dangerous levels of climate change that will upend economies for the foreseeable future.

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.

For all countries, it says, there are many ways in which energy - sector actions can still be accelerated in order to increase the chances of averting dangerous climate change in the future.

«Projecting to the future, to stabilise the climate system at a warming level that is not dangerous does require large cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and soon.

Assessing «Dangerous Climate Change»: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature

It has become increasingly clear that the Administration's climate action plan, of which the Clean Power Plan is a critical part, is characterized by modest, gradual emissions reductions, that will likely be insufficient to curtail dangerous climate change without significant ratcheting in the near future.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

The argument is whether us humans have super-imposed our excessive carbon dioxide emissions upon the existing natural balance of the climate system — thereby altering it's natural chemistry leading to possible dangerous global warming at some point in the near and distant future.

If we surpass this one - trillion - ton threshold, the planet will pass a tipping point and continue to warm, leaving future generations with a deteriorating and dangerous climate system.

«That's how we can win the fight against dangerous climate change that threatens our health and the lives of future generations.»

The authors look closely at the claim of a «scientific consensus» that most of the climate change that occurred in the past 50 years was due to human activity and that future climate change will be dangerous.

All of us have a moral obligation to protect the children of today, and future generations, from the dangerous impacts of climate change.

Join us on a journey to learn why the story of climate change isn't just about melting glaciers or disappearing polar bears, and not just about a more dangerous world for far - off future generations.

«Such surveys are often cited as demonstrating a near - unanimous scientific consensus in favor of a climate policy, when they never ask any question about whether and to what extent the anthropogenic component in recent warming might be dangerous or about whether a «climate policy» should be adopted in attempted mitigation of future warming.»

So if you've ever wondered why foresighted all - nation all - age all - gender teams of scientists are publishing articles like Assessing Dangerous Climate Change: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature — especially now that «the Pause» is over — well now yah know!

2 - that mitigation of CO2 will keep us from experiencing a climate more dangerous than the present in the future.

It sounds like hyperbole, but on this task the future of life as we know it does in fact depend.President Obama and the Democrats are paradigmatically better than the Republicans on the issue of climate change, yet they to a dangerous degree understate and undervalue the criticality of the moment.

DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0081648 Assessing «Dangerous Climate Change»: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature

Based on real world climate and the actual evidence, simulated predictions of future dangerous warming remain without any scientific substance.

(2013) Assessing «Dangerous Climate Change»: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature.

So «researchers» merely have to plug in estimates of future atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and, presto, out come 3 - 8 degrees of dangerous warming and climate change, and a host of «scenarios» for climate catastrophes, vanished species and dead people.

«The bottom line for our nation is that cleaner power will cut harmful carbon pollution, protect our children from dangerous smog and other serious climate impacts, and help secure a safe and prosperous future.»

The basic assumption underlying the UNFCCC is that man's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are driving the climate system to a dangerous future that can only be prevented by massive reductions in these emissions.

Even if climate sensitivity is on the lower end, if we don't get our emissions under control, we will still see a dangerous amount of global warming (more details on this to come in a future blog post).

But what I don't accept is that it is certain that climate change is going to turn fast and dangerous in the future or that renewable energy is the cheap and safe solution to that problem.

Yet evolution is an explanation of facts; dangerous man - made climate change is a prediction about the future.

Citation: Hansen J, Kharecha P, Sato M, Masson - Delmotte V, Ackerman F, Beerling DJ, et al. (2013) Assessing «Dangerous Climate Change»: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature.

In an article on «the perils of confirmation bias,» published for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (a group firmly opposed to policies that counteract climate change), Ridley suggested that «governments should fund groups that intend to explore alternative hypotheses about the likely future of climate as well as those that explore the dangerous man - made climate change prediction.»

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

If we are truly to assess the risk of climate change being dangerous, then impact and adaptation studies need scenarios that span a very substantial part of the possible range of future climates (Pittock, 1993; Parry et al., 1996; Risbey, 1998; Jones, 1999; Hulme and Carter, 2000).

Instead, the climate change debate is dominated by negative slogans about needing to change our behaviour, and that we face a difficult, unpredictable and dangerous future.

Mitigation will reduce the amount of future climate change and the risk of impacts that are potentially large and dangerous.

12:30 — 1:30 pm Lunch Buffet on site [with Dave Guston, SFIS Director] 1:30 — 2:45 pm Lightning Roundtable: Choosing a Future without Dangerous Climate Change — Transitions, Innovations, and Moral Choices

«While we are responsible for playing our part in preventing dangerous climate change,» says Uday Gupta, the company's Managing Director, «we also future - proof our growth and profitability by taking climate action in collaboration with our partners in the value chain.»

For example, a 2010 study published in the proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States (PNAS) titled «Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions» demonstrated that slowing population growth could provide 16 to 29 percent of the emissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change.

While a host of dangerous climate change impacts have already begun to cause death and destruction and to exact a toll on human populations across the globe — a fact that Mr. Tillerson has been unwilling to acknowledge — there is no doubt that it is our children, their children, and future generations that will bear the brunt of suffering as a result of our increasingly climate - disrupted world.

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.

I had a chance to speak with Hansen in the midst of the action, and he took a moment to explain why tar sands represent «a critical juncture» for our future, why unconventional fossil fuels are so dangerous, and how our politics could feasibly fight climate change.

climate sensitivities, it shouldn't ultimately matter whether dangerous climate change occurs in 2200, 2300 or 2400 because of our actions now; surely we should care about what we leave for future generations?

She's a champion for climate change solutions that create good, family - supporting jobs, and she supports bold action to stop dangerous and dirty fossil fuel pipelines and move us toward the 100 % renewable energy - powered future that Iowa and the planet need.

Only then will we be able to insure against the risk of much higher future energy prices; enhance Britain's energy sovereignty; and protect ourselves against dangerous climate change.»

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Going forward, we need to cut our reliance on these dangerous fuels to prevent future storms and other climate hazards from becoming ever more catastrophic.

This report was undertaken to facilitate a better understanding of the consequences of future federal fossil fuel leasing and extraction in the context of domestic and global efforts to avoid dangerous climate change