Sentences with phrase «for dangerous levels of climate change»

Yet even after the recently completed United Nations climate conference, we are still on track for dangerous levels of climate change.

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The high - carbon alternative, the report warns, will lock the world into dangerous levels of climate change that will upend economies for the foreseeable future.

There was a conference held at the begining of this year that went over this sort of thing, it was subtitled «Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change» and you can find the presentation [slides] that were presented at http://www.stabilisation2005.com/programme.html There's a lot of interesting things about possible thresholds, stabilisation levels for CO2 and emission reduction pathways and the potential costs.

The smallest warming / sea level rise in TAR figure 5 will place a wide range of human and natural systems under very considerable pressure (and based on estimates of the melt - down point for greenland place us teetering on the edge of dangerous climate change).

The 1992 U.N. treaty [Framework Convention on Climate Change] called for «stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.Climate Change] called for «stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.climate system.»

And so under this existing binding international law, nations have the ability to make choices that make sense for them on how they will keep their GHG emissions at levels that in combination with the GHG emissions of other countries will prevent dangerous climate change.

Despite the fact that the film delineates a few impacts of an Earth - wide temperature boost anticipated by researchers, for example climbing ocean levels, more dangerous storms, and disturbance of sea ebbs and flows and climate designs, it portrays these occasions incident a great deal more quickly and intensely than is recognized logically possible, and the hypothesis that a superstorm will make quick worldwide environmental change does not show up in the investigative writing.

He and 21 young people between the ages of 8 and 19 are currently suing the federal government for promoting «the use of fossil fuels, thus increasing the concentration of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere to unsafe levels and creating the dangerous climate change and ocean acidification that we face today.»

So «researchers» merely have to plug in estimates of future atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and, presto, out come 3 - 8 degrees of dangerous warming and climate change, and a host of «scenarios» for climate catastrophes, vanished species and dead people.

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will «lose for ever» the chance to avoid dangerous climate change The world is likely to build so many fossil - fuelled power stations, energy - guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be «lost for ever», according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.

President Obama managed to get fairly wide spread support for the Copenhagen Accord on the last day of the Copenhagen negotiations despite the fact that the United States was not able to commit to emissions reductions at levels to prevent dangerous climate change.

According to this paper, the world has likely already shot past the level of atmospheric concentrations that will lead to dangerous climate change for many.

(Hansen et al. 2008) According to this paper, the world has likely already shot past the level of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that will lead to dangerous climate change for many.

The President explained what the Administration has already done to reduce the dangerous levels of carbon dioxide that are contributing to climate change, and discussed ways to prepare our communities for the impacts that can not be avoided.

For this reason, any reliance on natural gas combustion as a method of reducing CO2 emissions must provide for ramped up commitments to non-fossil fuel sources of energy at levels needed to prevent dangerous climate chanFor this reason, any reliance on natural gas combustion as a method of reducing CO2 emissions must provide for ramped up commitments to non-fossil fuel sources of energy at levels needed to prevent dangerous climate chanfor ramped up commitments to non-fossil fuel sources of energy at levels needed to prevent dangerous climate change.

org, US reductions need to be much greater than average reduction levels required of the entire world as a matter of equity because the United States emissions are among the world's highest in terms of per capita and historical emissions and there is precious little atmospheric space remaining for additional ghg emissions if the world is serious about avoiding dangerous climate change.

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

Why Europe needs three ambitious and binding targets for 2030 to cut greenhouse gas emissions, save energy and develop renewable energies to avoid dangerous levels of climate change.

It stopped short of defining the level at which climate change became «dangerous», however, despite growing calls for two degrees of warming to be set as a limit.

ok, I am confused here as I thought the high levels of saturated fat being good for you had become an accepted notion a year or so back and we were all to avoid even looking at sugar as that was now thought to be as dangerous as climate change.

The identification of potential key vulnerabilities is intended to provide guidance to decision - makers for identifying levels and rates of climate change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Boxclimate change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Box change that may be associated with «dangerous anthropogenic interference» (DAI) with the climate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Boxclimate system, in the terminology of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see BoxClimate Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Box Change (UNFCCC) Article 2 (see Box 19.1).

To help avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change, ranging from extreme heat, droughts, and storms to acidifying oceans and rising sea levels, the United States must play a lead role and begin to cut its heat - trapping emissions today — and aim for at least an 80 percent drop from 2005 levels by 2050.

Consider, for example, that Lowe, et al. [in Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, H.J. Schellnhuber et al. (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, p. 32 - 33], based on a «pessimistic, but plausible, scenario in which atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were stabilised at four times pre-industrial levels,» estimated that a collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet would over the next 1,000 years raise sea level by 2.3 meters (with a peak rate of 0.5 mm / yr).

Three places, actually, for when all is said and done, the Convention affirms three high - level precepts: 1) Avoid dangerous climate change, 2) Divide the effort of doing so on the basis of «common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities,» and 3) Protect «the right to sustainable development.»

In his point # 6 (Scale of Task), he states: «Scientists describe warming of two degrees Celsius (2C) not as the boundary for dangerous climate change, but as representing a boundary between dangerous and extremely dangerous CLIMATE CHANGE, pointing to a safe boundary as being under 350 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalent (ppm CO2e), more than 120 ppm CO2e below the currentclimate change, but as representing a boundary between dangerous and extremely dangerous CLIMATE CHANGE, pointing to a safe boundary as being under 350 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalent (ppm CO2e), more than 120 ppm CO2e below the current change, but as representing a boundary between dangerous and extremely dangerous CLIMATE CHANGE, pointing to a safe boundary as being under 350 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalent (ppm CO2e), more than 120 ppm CO2e below the currentCLIMATE CHANGE, pointing to a safe boundary as being under 350 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalent (ppm CO2e), more than 120 ppm CO2e below the current CHANGE, pointing to a safe boundary as being under 350 parts per million carbon dioxide equivalent (ppm CO2e), more than 120 ppm CO2e below the current level.