Sentences with phrase «dangerous warming»

If this approach had been taken a decade ago, perhaps today's policymakers would be delivering measures that cut CO2 in line with a certain probability of avoiding dangerous warming.

And this geological time scale has little to do with the current push by many climate scientists to curb such emissions to avoid dangerous warming in the next century or two.

Yet some common themes emerge, suggesting certain actions will be essential if dangerous warming is to be avoided.

How dangerous the warming is, is not at all dependent on the quality of the parameters that we have to describe it.

One of the concepts I discuss in my talks is the carbon budget, or the remaining carbon dioxide humanity can emit before very dangerous warming occurs by the year 2100.

The computer models are all based on the assumption that CO2 drives dangerous warming and climate change.

The threat of dangerous warming is solely in the models.

For CO2 to cause dangerous warming it must cause an increase in atmospheric humidity.

Convection is therefore a negative feedback process that could well be capable of preventing dangerous warming from proportionately miniscule extra anthropogenic CO2.

INTERNATIONAL climate talks may be stalled, but the fight to protect the planet from dangerous warming goes on.

The Paris Agreement confirmed the commitment of global leaders to limit dangerous warming to below 2 °C but also promised to pursue an even stricter 1.5 °C target, adding more pressure for companies, investors and regulators to act.

EPA acted on the court's decision with its 2009 «endangerment finding,» which exhaustively reviewed the science and concluded that, without action, rising CO2 emissions would likely result in dangerous warming trends harmful to human health and the economy.

The Climate Models have forecast dangerous warming for fifteen years that has not happened yet.

If sensitivity is low and climate change continues at the same rate as it has over the past 50 years, then dangerous warming — usually defined as starting at 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels — is about a century away.

Still, more than four dozen scientists, economists, engineers and entrepreneurs interviewed by The New York Times said that unless the search for abundant non-polluting energy sources and systems became far more aggressive, the world would probably face dangerous warming and international strife as nations with growing energy demands compete for increasingly inadequate resources.

To fully understand the nature of the harm caused by this delay it is necessary to understand the policy implications of a «carbon budget» that must limit global emissions to avoid dangerous warming levels..

Most of your readers are probably unaware of the fact that doubling carbon dioxide in itself only produces a modest warming effect of about 1.2 C and that to get dangerous warming requires feedbacks from water vapour, clouds and other phenomena for which the evidence is far more doubtful.

Validation tests published two years after the original bet compared no - change model forecasts with IPCC dangerous warming forecasts for horizons from one to 100 years, and found that no - change forecasts were considerably more accurate; especially over longer horizons.

That's the finding of a pair of related reports released yesterday by an international group of climate science and policy luminaries who warned that the window is closing to avert dangerous warming.

But while plenty of other climate scientists hold firm to the idea that the full range of possible outcomes, including a disruptively dangerous warming of more than 4.5 degrees C. (8 degrees F.), remain in play, it's getting harder to see why the high - end projections are given much weight.

But, with aggressive measures to reduce emissions and adapt to those changes we can not avoid, we have a small window to avoid truly dangerous warming and provide future generations with a sustainable world.

Climategate, the release of e-mails from the University of East Anglia, called the science of dangerous warming into question and turned the tide of global opinion.

The gigantic consumer / industrial CO2 emissions during the modern era are claimed by «consensus» climate scientists to have caused rapid, accelerating, unprecedented dangerous warming, never experienced by humans before.

By that measure (measure 1 in the table), the no - change forecast errors were 12 percent smaller than those of the IPCC dangerous warming projection.

The Paris accord confirmed the commitment of global leaders to limit dangerous warming to below 2 °C but also promised to pursue an even stricter 1.5 °C target, adding more pressure for companies, investors and regulators to act.