Sentences with phrase «degree threshold»

These temps fall below our 95 - degree threshold for comfort.

To be real — the idea that there is a 2 degree threshold below which we are «safe» is nonsense — the number is arbitrary.

But with the heat strip, I don't have to worry about the temperature of my brew dropping below the 21 degree threshold for mold development.

The suggestion to, as Victor's and Kennel's article is titled, «Ditch the 2 ° C warming goal,» has unleashed fury from many climate advocates, particularly those who have worked for years to brand the importance of the two - degrees threshold into the global body politic.

In recent days, influential voices have advocated scrapping the two - degrees threshold as a goal, saying that to continue to structure climate policy around an all - but - dashed hope of averting that limit is both politically dishonest and environmentally counterproductive.

After 15 minutes of streaming full - screen HD video on the slate, the screen reached a full 104 degrees Fahrenheit, a mark that's well above our 95 - degree threshold for comfort.

After watching 15 minutes of a «Modern Family» episode on Hulu at full screen, the back of the X15 measured 84 degrees, comfortably under our 95 - degree threshold.

Insert, Oct. 4, 6:35 p.m Several readers have pointed to a long 2010 feature in Der Spiegel in which Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a top German climate scientist who helped establish the 2 - degree threshold, stressed it was a policy marker:

Alternatively, we trust the cumulative emissions number and treat the models as full proxies for reality, as was done in AR5, which would tell us that the emissions to date have already brought us to the brink of exceedance of the 1.5 degree threshold.

Kenneth Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University says that implying, as many do, that the 2 - degree threshold is defined by science and not politics and values is unwise at best:

In order to meet the 2 degree threshold, he argued that future emissions must be kept below 750 additional gigatons.

In an interview with Yale Environment 360 contributor Diane Toomey, Victor lays out his criticisms of the 2 - degree threshold, contending it has failed to position policy makers to take serious action on mitigating global warming, and he discusses the «basket of indicators» that he and his co-author, Charles Kennel, director emeritus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, are suggesting be used instead.

It details how much carbon dioxide countries have spewed in the atmosphere from burning coal, oil and natural gas so far, and how much more they can «spend» before crossing the 2 - degree threshold.

Fossil fuel companies have enough carbon stored in reserves to take us well over the 2 - degree threshold.

200 Companies Commit to Science Based Targets, Surpassing Expectations for Corporate Climate Action WASHINGTON (November 16, 2016)-- Just 18 months after its launch, the Science Based Targets initiative announced that 200 companies have committed to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold.

Now, that's important and unprecedented progress, but still above the 2 degree threshold that the scientific community acknowledges is necessary to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.

That kind of agreement would drive ambitious reductions in the decades to come and put us on track to keeping global warming below the 2 degree threshold.

De Souza points out that the two - degree threshold is a «goal set out in recent international climate change negotiations, based on scientific and economic studies, to prevent irreversible damage to the planet's ecosystems and economy.

With the latest IPCC report it is clear we must push for an ambitious 1.5 degree threshold.

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

The study published in Nature Climate Change finds that exceeding the 2 - degree threshold is very likely under business - as - usual emissions scenarios even as scientists have long warned that passing the 2 - degree mark would lead to catastrophic climate change.

The 9.8 degree threshold has only been crossed twice since 1900 and most recently in 1933.

Small island nations long have called for a 1.5 - degree threshold, arguing, based on sound science, that they may not exist if temperatures warm 2 degrees because seas will rise too quickly for their islands to adapt.

announced that 200 companies have committed to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold.

WASHINGTON (November 16, 2016)-- Just 18 months after its launch, the Science Based Targets initiative announced that 200 companies have committed to set emissions reduction targets consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold.

According to theInternational Energy Agency, tar sands production would not exceed 3.3 million barrels per day if we are to have any hope of keeping the climate below the two degree threshold that has been recognized by the international community as necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change.

To keep temperatures below the 2 - degree threshold, the world would have to capture and store more carbon than it is emitting.

We fought hard for the Paris Agreement and the 1.5 - degree threshold, the threshold for our survival....

But that target may be too high to avoid dangerous climate change, Diffenbaugh said, noting that millions of Americans could see a sharp rise in the number of extreme temperature events before 2039, when the 2 - degree threshold is expected to be reached.

I think space travel is not that much more unlikely than us avoiding a 2 degree threshold (i.e., both are unlikely), perhaps 4 degrees (after which people like Kevin Anderson have said the system would become unstable) and it doesn't have to be either / or.

This is that you will still have to temporarily go past the 1.5 degree threshold, and then employ so - called «negative emissions» technologies to subtract some net carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and get back down to 1.5 degrees C by 2100.

To remain at or below the two - degree threshold, they write in their synthesis report, emissions «theoretically speaking, must be reduced by 60 to 80 percent immediately.»

When I read the IPCC stuff, but also other academic papers, it seems like that two - degree threshold is really quite optimistic, and that we're on track for something more like four or five degrees.