Sentences with phrase «for irreversible climate change»

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.

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns.

Not exact matches

«If left unchecked,» the United Nations warned this month, «climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

«For the sake of future generations who could be harmed by irreversible climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold science against ideology,» he said in a statement.

«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.

If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

A new report from the IPCC says that climate change — if left unchecked — will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

Will they support the wellbeing of our own and other species or will they provide a context for further large - scale extinctions and irreversible climate change?»

Ecosystem - based approaches provide an important route to sustainable action and represent a vital insurance policy against irreversible damage from climate change, whereas failure to acknowledge the relationship between climate change and biodiversity and failure to act swiftly and in an integrated manner could undermine efforts for improvements in both areas.

Eric Rignot was acknowledged for «drawing public attention to the irreversible effects of climate change.»

For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate chanFor the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate chanfor a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate change.

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the world will rise by 1.5 m.

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the wor...

The sentence I just quoted implies pretty strongly that, in the presence of efficient (or for that matter inefficient) large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon, carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future might not result in a commitment to climate change that is irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.

But it's important to emphasize that if southwest North America moves into a dust bowl by mid-century or later (PNAS Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812721106.full.pdf+html), there will be suffering closer to home, even for people on other parts of the continent.

She said that the analysis she and co-authors did for a paper on «irreversible climate change» helped lead her, as a non-expert citizen when considering energy technology, to conclude that such research is vital, even as efforts are made to find successors to fossil fuels.

As for irreversible, if an ice sheet starts flowing, or if an albedo change from sea ice gets locked in, I could imagine a climate change being essentially irreversible even if CO2 was brought back down, but it's just speculation, nothing more.

The commentary by Parry et al advises us to prepare to adapt to climate changes of at least 4 °C, even though they recognize that it may not be possible to buy our way out of most of the damage (to natural systems, for example, including the irreversible loss of many plant and animal species).

If the climate silence and inaction continues, it may well be the story of the millennium — see NOAA: Climate change «largely irreversible for 1000 years,» with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around theclimate silence and inaction continues, it may well be the story of the millennium — see NOAA: Climate change «largely irreversible for 1000 years,» with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around theClimate change «largely irreversible for 1000 years,» with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with a membership of 121,200 scientists and «science supporters» globally, just released an 18 - page report confirming that the world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» due to climate change.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

More recently, in 2014, he addressed the dire need for climate action: «The worst possible aspect of climate change is that it will be irreversible and irrevocable.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science acknowledged this brilliantly earlier this year, releasing an 18 - page report consisting of «just the facts,» which confirmed that the world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» due to climate change.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which, to be fair, advances the cause of global governance) has stated that if we don't cut carbon emissions there will be «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

Bill McKibben, a high - profile climate campaigner with 350.org, said: «For scientists, conservative by nature, to use «serious, pervasive, and irreversible» to describe the effects of climate falls just short of announcing that climate change will produce a zombie apocalypse plus random beheadings plus Ebola.»

Eric Rignot was acknowledged for «drawing public attention to the irreversible effects of climate change.»

Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.

Here, for example, is a classic by Susan Solomon that proportedly shows that «climate change (due to CO2) is irreversible» by exclusively referencing other models, which themselves never reference actual data.

The IPCC has backed off talk of tipping points and irreversible climate change, though I get the impression that may be a political calculation — in line with Lacis's peeve that «likely» and «most likely» are weasel constructions for appearance's sake.

The spewing of 110 million tonnes a day of heat - trapping pollution into the atmosphere — as if the atmosphere were an open sewer — is «increasing the likelihood,» says a warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, «of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems».

«(3) an analysis of the status of worldwide greenhouse gas reduction efforts, including implementation of the Safe Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate Climate Act and other policies, both domestic and international, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate climate change.

Crystallizing scientific data and analysis reveal that the Earth is close to dangerous climate change, to tipping points of the system with the potential for irreversible deleterious effects.

Given that existing fossil fuel operations already exceed the carbon budget left to avoid catastrophic, irreversible changes to our climate, there is no justification for new fossil fuel infrastructure, especially on the scale of the Southern Gas Corridor.

When he's asked for the evidence of irreversible climate change and then the other side goes silent.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (UN 1992a: Art 3, emphasis added).

Pam Pearson, ICCI's founder and director, introduced the report on the risks of irreversible climate change in the cryosphere − the scientific name for the parts of the world that are covered in ice and snow for part or all of the year — by saying: «We are worried by the disconnect between cryosphere dynamics and the policy response.»

Within this framework, the possibility for irreversible changes in the climate system exists.

The overarching justification for most climate change policies today derives from a political interpretation of Principle 15 (now called the Precautionary Principle) of the United Nations Rio Declaration of 1992, which states: «Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.»

The choice of a stabilization level implies the balancing of the risks of climate change (risks of gradual change and of extreme events, risk of irreversible change of the climate, including risks for food security, ecosystems and sustainable development) against the risk of response measures that may threaten economic sustainability.

A 127 - page final draft of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report sent to governments Monday warned the effects of global warming already are felt across all the continents and oceans and further emissions will increase the likelihood of «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

Even if we were to stop emitting carbon - dioxide tomorrow, atmospheric concentrations would remain elevated for centuries — so, on any reasonable time scale, the changes that we're making to the Earth's climate system are irreversible.

The numerical evidence for irreversible change to a year - round ice - free state was first discussed in studies with simple diffusive climate models (e.g., North, 1984, 1990).

Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said on Monday.

The 2008 paper, Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, by Solomon et al., says that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop, due to the thermal inertia ofIrreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, by Solomon et al., says that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop, due to the thermal inertia ofirreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop, due to the thermal inertia of the oceans.

James E. Hansen worded it a bit more cleverly and eloquently before US Congress in April 2007: «crystallizing scientific data and analysis reveal that the Earth is close to dangerous climate change, to tipping points of the system with the potential for irreversible deleterious effects.»

«The irreversible damage to agriculture and food production due to climate change could have grave consequences for food security.

This paper shows that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop.

STOCKHOLM — The world's top climate scientists on Friday formally embraced an upper limit on greenhouse gases for the first time, establishing a target level at which humanity must stop spewing them into the atmosphere or face irreversible climatic changes.