Sentences with phrase «degrees of warming marks»

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«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

This is because the Pacific Ocean only approaches the 70 °F degree mark in the warmest parts of summer, while less than 100 miles away, the Sea of Cortez can be in excess of 90 °F.

When asked who has inspired him in his research and thinking about climate change and global warming, Roddy said: «I have been inspired by Mark Lynas» book «Six Degrees», the IPCC reports and supporting studies by Bill McKibben, Harte, and images of what future survivors cities might look like.

Analyst Mark Lewis of Kepler Cheuvreaux, a Swiss private bank, calculates that to meet emissions targets that could cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius will mean lost fossil - fuel revenues of no less than $ 28 trillion (PDF) in the coming two decades.

Do you think you can convince me that we aren't in a interglacial period that is getting a bit long in tooth, that the Milankovitch cycle that helps the glaciers grow by making northern hemisphere winters warmer and summers cooler isn't moving in the direction favorable to glaciation, and that the next once - per - thousand year volcanic eruption won't happen in this century, and it won't be the straw that breaks the camel's back by lowering the earth's temperature a couple degrees for a few years to mark the end of the Holocene?

Mark Lynas's «Six Degrees» is a modern classic, outlining potential effects of various levels of global warming.

Environmentalist Mark Lynas has shown how phasing out planned nuclear programmes in a number of countries as a result of the Fukushima disaster could add another degree to global warming.

Mark Lynas's Six Degrees * is first, a graceful yet massive synthesis of a very large selection of scientific research papers; second, an eloquent and honest plea for action on the «slow - motion crisis» that is climate change; and third, a coherent account of how global warming would affect humans and their world, if allowed to proceed.

Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius

Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius scenario on their business, strategy and financial planning.