Sentences with phrase «different future warming scenarios»
They then compared how 10 different vegetation classes, ranging from grasses to trees, would likely respond in the Arctic under these different future warming scenarios.
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Scientists typically look at four different possible futures, ranging from an uber - green society to a worst - case scenario, in which no action is taken to combat global warming.
Coastal state and US total 2010 census populations living on land falling below future committed high tide lines under different fixed long - term warming scenarios, assuming the inevitable collapse of the WAIS under any scenario (triggered case)
Coastal state and US total 2010 census populations living on land falling below future committed high tide lines under different fixed long - term warming scenarios, making no assumptions about the inevitability of WAIS collapse (baseline case)
Gillett et al. then use their TCR estimate to project how much the planet will warm in the future based on several different emissions scenarios.
His new research, published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, presents a global assessment of the economic costs and the population affected by river floods under different global warming scenarios.
Ellipses show cumulative emissions and warming in 2100 for different categories of future emissions scenario.
The elements are: (1) the amount of temperaturechange since 1850; (2) whether the change is in the range of natural variability or is attributable to humans; (3) the amount of warming that greenhouse gases (CO2 and equivalents) will warm the Earth in the future; and whether for the most likely scenarios, there are more losers than winners and if the change is just different.
Science writer Greg Laden wrote that the Duke study will receive «criticism from climate scientists» because it includes language that suggests it is assessing the likelihood of different warming scenarios by predicting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that will occur in the future, which it can't possibly know.