Sentences with phrase «dangerous warming in»

Carbon controls are predicated on a real risk of dangerous warming in the future.
We face such hard choices and limited policy options to avoid dangerous warming in 2016 because we have squandered the 18 years since the Kyoto Accord.
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.

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But because we committed in Paris to avoiding dangerous global warming, it's already clear that Canada's long - term picture involves very little greenhouse gas pollution.
«O'Connor is not only a fanatic, in the sense that any religious zealot unquestioningly committed to a rigid set of beliefs is a fanatic; he is the most effective and therefore the most dangerous kind of fanatic — warm, personable, humorous, eminently reasonable in conversation, and extremely skillful at manipulating the media.»
Caramel can be dangerous to deal with... but here are some tips: 1 — When adding something to hot (350 F) caramel, warm it in the first place (like «tempering»)... you don't need to boil the cream (I use milk, it has less calories), but you should have it quite warm (use a microwave oven).
The beach was nice, white sand and warm water, but a couple of things made it not quite perfect: the water is not crystal clear, it is a bit murky and as soon as you walk into the water there is a sudden drop of around 30 cm that makes it dangerous for little children; in this area there are stones so getting in and out the water is a bit awkward.
This also makes Philips Avent bottle warmer dangerous in operation as without automatic switch - off it will continue to work even without a bottle in it.
«Any realistic plan to reduce global warming pollution sufficiently — and in time — to avoid dangerous consequences must rely in part on preserving tropical forests,» reports Environmental Defense Fund.
While dressing the baby in those fluffy (and super cute) coveralls, using a plush car seat warmer, and putting on a few extra blankets might seem like a good idea, it can actually be downright dangerous.
«In the past people have attempted to start small fires to keep warm, and clearly this is a huge concern and can be dangerous to their livelihood,» said Sieberg.
The government's attorneys said in court papers last month that the concentration of 350 ppm of CO2 isn't necessarily dangerous but acknowledged the country bears significant responsibility for fueling global warming (Climatewire, Jan. 18).
Further climate negotiations in the years ahead will aim to keep warming below that dangerous level.
To my wonder, I found that for an ECS of three degrees C, our planet would cross the dangerous warming threshold of two degrees C in 2036, only 22 years from now.
That's an incredibly aggressive goal but one some scientists say is the only way that the world can avert global warming of more than 2 °C — the European Union has determined that's a prudent limit to «avoid dangerous anthropogenic warmingin the United Nations parlance.
If the aerosols had been keeping a lid on warming, cleaning up smog could have produced a dangerous surge in warming.
• GLOBAL WARMING Physicist Richard A. Muller, although convinced that climate change is real, potentially dangerous and probably caused in part by humans, has disagreed with many climate scientists, asserting that their measurements and analyses are deeply flawed.
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.
The world needs to drop its global warming pollution by 6 percent annually to avoid «dangerous» climate change in the estimation of Hansen and his co-authors in a recent paper in PLoS One.
Live embryos like the one pictured above consistently moved toward warm spots but retreated from the dangerous hot spots, the researchers report online today in Biology Letters.
WHEN it comes to avoiding dangerous rises in sea level, every little bit of global warming we can avert will make a difference.
«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.
Water temperatures off Australia rose to levels dangerous to corals starting in 2014 as a result of global warming and El Niño.
Or efforts to offset warming by injecting carbon dioxide into underground rocks could make aquifers more acidic, increasing their ability to leach dangerous metals out of rocks, and leading to higher concentrations of these metals in springs and rivers.
Holdren said global warming is a «dangerous misnomer» for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature.
«Science tells us that we can not say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming, and therefore what level must be avoided,» Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for global affairs and the leader of the American delegation, said in her remarks to the conference.»
The caldera of Tupan Patera, named after a Brazilian thunder god, reveals itself to be a strange and dangerous place, replete with hot black lava, warm red sulfur deposits likely deposited from vented gas, and hilly yellow terrain also high in sulfur.
Hence, Earth - type life around flare stars may be unlikely because their planets must be located very close to dim red dwarfs to be warmed sufficiently by star light to have liquid water (between 0.02 and 0.05 AU for Wolf 424 A and B with an orbital period in 3 and 12 days), which makes flares even more dangerous around such stars.
In the light of this perhaps I should rephrase my question to — Do you think that a dangerous thermal event like the Eocene is probable with the degree of warming from anthropogenic causes?
The latter has already begun producing methane and CO2 in the Arctic, starting a feedback process which may lead to uncontrollable, very dangerous global warming, akin to that which occurred at the PETM.
«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.
It does not mean that human - caused global warming is not potentially dangerous... just read the published body of research since 1842... or better yet talk to research scientists who are actively publishing in this like I talk to them weekly.
In the part of the «Swindle» film where I am describing the fact that the ocean tends to expel carbon dioxide where it is warm, and to absorb it where it is cold, my intent was to explain that warming the ocean could be dangerous — because it is such a gigantic reservoir of carbon.
He attributes the current temperature increase to Earth recovering from the Little Ice Age and, in the same article, states that «no consensus exists that man - made emissions are the primary driver of global warming or, more importantly, that global warming is accelerating and dangerous
These time scales are within the lifetime of anthropogenic CO2, and thus these feedbacks must be considered in estimating the dangerous level of global warming.
Given the unprecedented rapidity of the human - made climate forcing, it is difficult to establish how soon slow feedbacks will become important, but clearly slow feedbacks should be considered in assessing the «dangerous» level of global warming, as discussed in the next section.
and, in the same article, states that «no consensus exists that man - made emissions are the primary driver of global warming or, more importantly, that global warming is accelerating and dangerous
Climate engineering in an enticing way to alleviate global warming but altering the composition of the Earth's atmosphere could be more dangerous.
It will also include complicated models of interconnected ecosystem feedbacks.The panel's last report noted that preliminary knowledge of such feedbacks suggested that an additional 100 billion to 500 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions would have to be prevented in the next century to avoid dangerous global warming.
A 2016 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggested that warmer ocean temperatures may be fueling the growth of dangerous bacteria — including Vibrio — in northern seas.
If you were to soak the tea bad in warm water not hot enough to get a good bacterial kill initially, there may be enough viable bacteria in the tea leaves to grow during that 5 hour interval such that the next cup may be seriously dangerous (some may divide every 15 minutes, for example).
Once the muffins have cooled enough for you to touch and handle with your hands, dip the warm muffins in melted butter (I did just the top of the muffins, but you could probably do the whole muffin if you wanted to get dangerous), then dip / roll the muffin in the cinnamon, sugar, brown sugar mix.
A compelling Climate Fiction trilogy set against a backdrop of runaway global warming... a love story in a hotter, more dangerous world
Aren't we already overwhelmed by threats of global warming, dangerous food additives and low test scores in our schools?
Download this Mouthpiece to let your community know how dangerous leaving a pet in a car during warm weather can be.
Dangerous stinging jellyfish («stingers») may be present in the waters around Magnetic Island at any time, but occur more frequently in the warmer months.
In these paintings Ben recreates their character, leaving to question whether there could be a soft and warming creature underneath or whether there is nothing beyond the dangerous and deadly charm.
Since the science and theory linking global warming in the short term is much weaker than the underlying rationale for long - term global warning, arguing about short term trends is dangerous.
The smallest warming / sea level rise in TAR figure 5 will place a wide range of human and natural systems under very considerable pressure (and based on estimates of the melt - down point for greenland place us teetering on the edge of dangerous climate change).
However, this in itself is not enough to define what level of warming is «dangerous,» especially since the projections of actual impacts for any level of warming are highly uncertain, and depend on further factors such as how quickly these levels are reached (so how long ecosystems and society have had to respond), and what other changes are associated with them (eg: carbon dioxide concentration, since this affects plant photosynthesis and water use efficiency, and ocean acidification).
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