Sentences with phrase «degree danger threshold»

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Under current policies, the IEA puts the chances of holding global temperature increases to less than 2 degrees — the threshold at which global warming tips us into the danger zone — at a scant 2 percent.

Richard Betts, the head of the climate impacts section of Britain's Met Office, recently left a comment on the «skeptic» * blog Bishop Hill stating that thresholds for climate danger, such as the much ballyhooed 2 - degree limit enshrined in recent climate pledges, were not determined by science:

The declaration said that the I.P.C.C. and other studies pointed to clear - cut ecological and social dangers above a threshold of about 3 degrees Fahrenheit of additional warming.