A large enough number of such roofs could «completely offset warming due to urban expansion and even offset a percentage of
future greenhouse warming over large regional scales,» says sustainability scientist Matei Georgescu at Arizona State University, who lead the research.
Not exact matches
A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a
warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of
greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project
future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the
warming observed
over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.
Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue
over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate
warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending substantially on
future greenhouse gas emissions.
This is because
over the past three years, hundreds of new scientific field accounts of global
warming's impacts, as well as improved peer - reviewed analyses of global
warming itself in both the deep past and the very near
future, have depicted earth's atmosphere as far more «sensitive» to the invisible CO2, methane and other human - sourced
greenhouse gases than had been hoped.
First, the computer climate models on which predictions of rapid
warming from enhanced atmospheric
greenhouse gas concentration are based «run hot,» simulating two to three times the
warming actually observed
over relevant periods — during which non-anthropogenic causes probably accounted for some and could have accounted for all the observed
warming — and therefore provide no rational basis for predicting
future GAT.
Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue
over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate
warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending substantially on
future greenhouse gas emissions.
According to the Cato Institute's book summary, «Acknowledging that industrial emissions of
greenhouse gasses have
warmed the planet and will continue to do so
over the next several decades, Michaels and Balling argue that
future warming will be moderate, not catastrophic, and will have benign economic and ecological effects.»
It remains true that Earth has
warmed more than 1 degree farenheit degrees
over last century largely due to the buildup of human - made
greenhouse gases... it remains the case that the projections of
future climate change are every bit of discouraging as they were before the recent flap began.»
If we do nothing to reduce our emissions of
greenhouse gases,
future warming will likely be at least two degrees Celsius
over the next century.
«With a high scenario for
future greenhouse gas emissions, the largest
warming occurs
over the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, but all land areas
warm dramatically,» remarked Field