Sentences with phrase «extreme warming scenario»
Our method allows us to calculate a very extreme warming scenario.
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The social cost of carbon is the discounted monetary value of future climate change damages due to additional CO2 emissions (for example, the costs of adverse agricultural effects, protecting against rising sea levels, health impacts, species loss, risks of extreme warming scenarios, and so on).
The extreme warming scenarios are driven by a CO2 feedback term in the climate models.
Not exact matches
The IPCC's climate report says that the most extreme scenarios of future warming are looking less likely — but this doesn't change the big picture
In the most extreme scenarios, with the planet warming by almost 10 °C, the oceans could be starved of oxygen for 8000 years.
The A2 scenario reflects continued global population growth with decentralized ecomonic and technological changes and forecasts more extreme warming than most emission scenarios.
Gavin Schmidt writes, «The suggested «doubling» of the rate of warming in the future compared to even the most extreme scenario developed by IPCC is thus highly exaggerated.
«If I follow a reasonable scenario, not an extreme one, for global warming,» said Haeberli, «I can say that we will see it here first.
«If I follow a reasonable scenario, not an extreme one, for global warming,» Dr. Haeberli said, «I can say that we will see it here first.
I will start: I want the global community to mitigate the extreme risk of the warmest future climate scenarios.
Under all but the two most extreme scenarios (fixed 4 °C warming or RCP 8.5 through 2100), Florida holds 40 % or more of the population living on potentially affected land.
One model at the very extreme had a worst - case - scenario warming of 11 degrees Celsius — which is nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
We estimate that anthropogenic influence has caused a more than 60-fold increase in the likelihood of the extreme warm 2013 summer since the early 1950s, and project that similarly hot summers will become even more frequent in the future, with fully 50 % of summers being hotter than the 2013 summer in two decades even under the moderate RCP4.5 emissions scenario.
The impact of these fluxes on the AMOC was generally small compared to the effect of enhanced poleward atmospheric moisture transport and ocean surface warming; or it was only noticeable in the most extreme scenarios.
But even extreme global warming scenarios do not take us there, in any research I have seen.
In their study, Dim Coumou, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Alexander Robinson, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, used state - of - the - art climate models to project changes in the trend of heat extremes under two future warming scenarios — RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 — throughout the 21st century.
The blanket - exemption treatment is based on increasingly questionable assertions that wind turbines reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels that supposedly cause global warming, climate change, extreme weather events and an amazing number of dog, people, Italian pasta, prostitution and other exaggerated or imaginary problems, plus others that exist only in computer models whose forecasts and scenarios bear no resemblance to Real World conditions or events.
Tamino told me that the models show accelerating warming, so even the low amount of warming since 1998 doesn't invalidate any extreme scenarios.
I concluded that the projections of extreme sea level rise are not consistent with plausible physical mechanisms, not supported by the available data, and further, that the AR4 projected range (about 30 - 50 cm by 2100) agreed perfectly with my projections over a wide range of warming scenarios.