Sentences with phrase «expected over the next century»

BOULDER — Drastic, economy - changing cuts to greenhouse gas emissions will spare the planet half the trauma expected over the next century as the Earth warms.

The scientific consensus is that doubling its level as is expected over the next century will cause about 1C of warming.

For years I have opposed steps like a Federal carbon tax or cap and trade system because I believe (and still believe) them to be unnecessary given the modest amount of man - made warming I expect over the next century.

Not exact matches

Ocean acidification, which is a direct consequence of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, is expected to have a deleterious effect on many marine species over the next century.

Under conservative estimates, we expect to see 2 feet [of sea - level rise] over the next century,» said Horton.

With the world's energy demands expected to increase more than three-fold over the next century, ExxonMobil and Shell executives acknowledge the necessity (and difficulty) of unseating inexpensive and efficient crude oil and coal

Climate change is expected to increase the intensity of winds over the Southern Ocean throughout the next century, and the new findings show that Totten Glacier will probably respond to the changing winds.

Contrary to what you might expect, the third IPPC report predicted that global warming would most likely lead to a thickening of the ice sheet over the next century, with increased snowfall compensating for any melting cause by warming.

Tree species that are already at the southern end of their range, such as balsam fir, quaking aspen, white spruce, and tamarack, are expected to decline over the next century while American basswood, black cherry, eastern white pine, red maple, sugar maple, and white oak may gain suitable habitat across the landscape.

With world population expected to increase as much as 50 percent over the next half century, analysts are indeed worried that increasing demand for water, coupled with industrialization and urbanization, will have serious consequences both for human health and the environment.

Over the next century, temperatures in the Central Appalachians are expected to increase in all four seasons.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

Without significant mitigation, sea - level rise of several meters is to be expected over the next few centuries.

No one can know what will happen over the next decade, but this data does not support the IPCC assertion that we can be 90 % certain that increasing CO2 concentrations have been responsible for a substantial part of the 20th century warming, or that we an expect 3 degrees C of warming over the next century.

A recent video of him being interviewed by Brit Hume of Fox News had Michaels asserting that while global warming was real we could expect the average rate of temperature increase over the last century to remain flat over the next century, and so no big deal.

I would like to read a book about how the rate and degree of warming expected to take place over the next couple centuries compares with global warming episodes in Earth's past, and how today's plants and animals might not survive climate change and heat waves more severe than experienced during the climates in which their species evolved.

Right now, our global competitors are growing their clean energy sectors in order to dominate a market that some expect to expand by $ 2 trillion over the next decade.16 As we describe in our report, Creating a Clean Energy Century, 17 China is committed to investing over $ 700 billion in clean energy over the coming decade, 18 in addition to building 245 new nuclear plants19 and putting a price on carbon.

One reason for this is that many impacts of climate change are expected to be proportional to the amount of global average warming that occurs over the next several decades to centuries.

The report also highlights the fact that carbon dioxide concentration has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution from about 290 parts per million to about 340 today (1981) and that it is expected to double over the next century.

According to the modeling group led by William Nordhaus, a Yale professor widely considered to be the world's leading expert on this kind of assessment, an optimally designed and implemented global carbon tax would provide an expected net benefit of around $ 3 trillion, or about 0.2 percent of the present value of global GDP over the next several centuries.

If the rate of sea level rise would double, for example, over the next century from the current satellite estimates, we would expect a total sea level rise of roughly about 1.2 - 1.4 ft. by 2100.

Although climate models have been predicting increasing average global temperatures over the next century or so, the past decade has not shown as much warming as most scientists had expected.

Or is this table projecting that TCR in 2080 in RCP4.5 will be a TOTAL of 1.8, and since temp has ALREADY gone up 1.0 since 1850 (280ppm)-- we should expect 0.8 further warming over this century, and another 0.7 over the next 2?

N.b. this diverges from the commonly used «Charney sensitivity» which describes temperature change over the next century or so, and which is less than the change expected over the multi-millenial scale of dwindling ice sheets and vegetation changes.

When the IPCC gets to a forecast of 3 - 5C warming over the next century (in which CO2 concentrations are expected to roughly double), it is in two parts.

And since we have had rising sea level over last couple centuries, and this generally indicates warming global ocean volume, I expect this trend to continue for the next century [most likely] and due to warming oceans continuation of tread of less polar sea ice.

We will most likely see larger than previously expected increases in sea levels over the next century according to a recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado,

The early Eocene hyperthermals, a series of transient global warming events (2 to 5 °C, provide a unique opportunity to assess the sensitivity of the hydrologic cycle to the scale of greenhouse forcing expected over the next several centuries.

Next week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main international body tasked with studying climate change, is expected to release the first section of a four - part report that is expected to be the strongest statement yet by scientists that the burning of fossil fuels by humans over the past half century is warming the planet.

So, based on history, we might expect at worst another 0.5 C from warming over the next century.

More cordial relations, clearly — but probably much more: strong demand for Bolivia's natural gas, and a prolonged drought in Chile, with water supply to the Santiago region expected to fall by 40 % over the next half - century, could increase the value of Bolivia's potential gas and water exports to Chile.

CHARLWOOD: In the Century 21 world, we're looking at some dramatic expansion in Asia / Pacific, expecting over the course of the next five to seven years to grow to 1,000 outlets.