Sentences with phrase «emission trends continue»

In a landmark study published in Nature, researchers found that 18 to 35 percent of species studied in a survey of 20 percent of the Earth's land area will be committed to extinction by the year 2050 if greenhouse gas emission trends continue.

A landmark study surveying 20 percent of the Earth's land area offered a stark prediction: 35 percent of species will be committed to extinction by the year 2050 if greenhouse gas emission trends continue.

If current emission trends continue, by 2100, CO2 concentration would be higher than the Earth has seen in more than 10 million years.

Previous work by the group projected that all of the reefs in the world may be dissolving in a few decades if current carbon dioxide emission trends continue.

* Scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology have calculated that if current carbon dioxide emission trends continue, by mid-century 98 % of present - day reef habitats will be bathed in water too acidic for reef growth.

If emission trends continue, the subcontinent will face twice as many droughts in the next decade.

If current emission trends continue, by 2100, CO2 concentration would be higher than the Earth has seen in more than 10 million years.

«We find that current emission trends continue to track scenarios that lead to the highest temperature increases,» they wrote in an analysis published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

If current emissions trends continue (RCP8.5) we could cross the 1.5 °C threshold in 10 to 15 years, somewhere between the years 2025 - 2030, compared to 2045 - 2050 when a 1985 - 2005 baseline is used.

Type in your city name and see what temperatures there will be in 2100 if current emissions trends continue

By modeling the observed changes in drought recovery times with «business as usual» circumstances for future conditions, meaning assuming greenhouse gas emission trends continued as they have, the researchers were able to predict the future recovery times of droughts.

Not exact matches

If current trends continue and the world fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then severe bleaching will occur every year on 99 per cent of the world's reefs within the century, according to the study.

Climate change has caused ocean temperatures to rise, a trend that will continue in the coming centuries even if fossil fuel emissions are curtailed.

Global GHG emissions continue to be dominated by fossil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which however show a slowdown trend since 2012, and were stalled for the third year in a row in 2016.

He also ordered up a government plan to «continue the trend of reduced emission».

But the downward trend in emissions can only continue if more renewables and nuclear power are used in the U.S., he said.

A new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, suggests that — if current trends continue — food production alone will reach, if not exceed, the global targets for total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2050.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trend, the rate of warming will reach 0.7 °F per decade and stay that high until at least 2100.

No, I think most indicators suggest a moderate medium term warming trend that started well before any significant man made CO2 emissions and continues to this date.

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

If emissions continue down a mid-range path — one consistent with the direction current policies and market trends seem to be taking us — the new results indicate a higher likely rise of 0.7 to 1.3 meters (2.2 to 4.1 feet), compared to 0.4 to 0.8 meters (1.4 to 2.5 feet) in the IPCC - consistent estimate.

And as the animation shows, it's a long - term trend that is likely to continue until the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are significantly curtailed.

If current trends continue, the 2.0 - litre TDI Ultra diesel with 187bhp will be by far the most popular engine, thanks to its economy of up to 68.9 mpg and CO2 emissions of 108g / km, for a company - car friendly Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) band of 23 %.

But this is a trend that's likely to continue as the domineering European and Californian emissions regulations tighten towards 2020.

• The methanetrack.org website has shown significant increases in atmospheric methane concentrations over Antarctica this austral winter (which I believe are due to increases in methane emissions from the Southern Ocean seafloor due to increases in the temperature of bottom water temperatures), and if this trend continues, then the Southern Hemisphere could be a significant source of additional atmospheric methane (this century).

He recently wrote a Policy Forum paper in Science reviewing his and other research on widespread misunderstanding of this kind of risk, including a 2007 study he was a co-author of in which 84 percent of 212 M.I.T. participating grad students drew curves for proposed emission trends that would result in concentrations continuing to climb.

Ironically, even if the present trends continued, the resulting extra oil demand and CO2 emissions would be small relative to China's other energy needs and emissions.

«If current trends in CO2 emissions continue unabated,» says Caldeira, «in the next few decades, we will produce chemical conditions in the oceans that have not been seen for tens of millions of years.

If current settlement trends continue, and a dramatic increase in hurricane preparedness does not occur, the fact that settlement trends are the dominant factor will mean that hurricane damages will most likely continue to increase even if GHG emissions are reduced to zero.

But a continued rapid rise in carbon emissions would cut heavily into that positive trend.

It is not enough for the United States to argue that continuing emissions trends in low - emitting countries will contribute to climate change harms without considering what distributive justice would require of low - emitting countries in regard to future emissions.

That is to say that there will be one EU - wide cap on the number of emission allowances and this cap will decrease annually along a linear trend line, which will continue beyond the end of the third trading period (2013 - 2020).

This trend is expected to continue in all the markers, except A2 in which an increased use of coal «counters» a decline in specific emissions in OECD90 (Figure 5 - 20).

If you simply plot the average global temperatures, 1975 - present, you will see a continuing upward trend that slowed down around 1995 (due to Eastern SO2 Emissions offsetting Western SO2 reductions), but it has never been flat.

A general acknowledgement that it has not warmed significantly over a period of over a decade, despite the fact that human CO2 emissions have continued unabated, but that this trend is too short to be statistically significant.

Click here to view the most recent Carbon Emissions Indicator and Data Though economic growth slowed throughout much of the world during 2001, world carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels continued their relentless upward trend, surpassing 6.5 billEmissions Indicator and Data Though economic growth slowed throughout much of the world during 2001, world carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels continued their relentless upward trend, surpassing 6.5 billemissions from burning fossil fuels continued their relentless upward trend, surpassing 6.5 billion tons.

On current trends, the IPCC finds, emissions will continue to soar and global average temperatures will rise between 2.5 and 7.8 degrees Celsius before the century is out, depending on the pace of economic growth and the sensitivity of the climate system to CO2.

But with our carbon emissions we have not only reversed that trend, but will likely continue to warm the planet until well past the point at which there is no Arctic sea ice within the next few decades.

The US's emissions are decreasing due to market forces and that trend will continue.

If current trends continue and India follows the traditional path in which emissions increase as living standards rise, it will be disastrous not only for Indians but for the entire planet.

# 24 «If CO2 emissions continue on their current trends, earth is on course to be 2.6 - 4.8 C (4.7 - 8.6 F) degrees warmer and the oceans could be up to a meter higher by the end of this century.

In part 16 of our temperature trend series we take a better look at one of the main reasons almost everyone still underestimates climate urgency: «Thermal inertia» of the climate system — a delay between the moment of emissions of... Continue reading →

To date, while various effects and feedbacks constrain the certainty placed on recent and projected climate change (EG, albedo change, the response of water vapour, various future emissions scenarios etc), it is virtually certain that CO2 increases from human industry have reversed and will continue to reverse the downward trend in global temperatures that should be expected in the current phase of the Milankovitch cycle.

The trend will not improve if over-allocation of emission allowances through weak National Allocation Plans seen in the period 2005 - 2007 continues.

If that continued the numbers should be licking at 412, but the emissions trend doesn't look supportable... so I am cautiously optimistic in my prediction.

The research looked at growth trends in the aviation industry and calculated that emissions from the sector would rise rapidly between now and 2050, assuming these trends continued.

In 2015 most of the country experienced temperatures above average or much above average, and unless global emissions are reduced significantly, the trend is likely to continue.

The moralising stridency of so many arguments for cap - and - trade, carbon taxes, and global emissions treaties was founded on the idea that there is a consensus about how much warming there would be if carbon emissions continue on trend.

If that trend continues, the IEA says, global carbon - dioxide emissions will keep rising sharply and climate models suggest the Earth could heat up by as much as 6 °C (10.8 °F) over the long term.

If the slight cooling trend continues for another few more years (say to a total of 20 + years) despite unabated human GHG emissions, we will have falsified the CAGW hypothesis of IPCC.