Sentences with phrase «global danger levels»

That complexity led the session's chair — John Schellnhuber, from the UK's Tyndall Centre for Climatic Research, to warn that setting precise global danger levels may be «mission impossible».

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This is the difference between countries» pledged commitments to reduce emissions of heat - trapping greenhouse gases after 2020 and scientifically calculated trajectories giving good odds of keeping global warming below the threshold for danger countries pledged to try to avoid in climate talks in 2010 (to «hold the increase in global average temperature below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels»).

Here are some possible choices — in order of increasing sophistication: * All (or most) scientists agree (the principal Gore argument) * The 20th century is the warmest in 1000 years (the «hockeystick» argument) * Glaciers are melting, sea ice is shrinking, polar bears are in danger, etc * Correlation — both CO2 and temperature are increasing * Sea levels are rising * Models using both natural and human forcing accurately reproduce the detailed behavior of 20th century global temperature * Modeled and observed PATTERNS of temperature trends («fingerprints») of the past 30 years agree

Sea - level rise is a long - term danger of global warming.

The low - lying Pacific Island country of Kiribati is one of many micro-nations in danger of serious damage and even inundation from rising sea levels caused by melting polar ice and increasingly turbulent global weather.

The primary danger from global warming was supposed to be the sea level rise from melting ice caps but this hasn't occurred either and satellite measurements show that the rate of sea level rise has in fact decreased in 2004 to 0.37 mm / year in the Atlantic and 0.15 mm / year in the Pacific.

«Even today, with the global warming danger level at a critical phase, Defendants continue to engage in massive fossil fuel production and execute long - term business plans to continue and even expand their fossil fuel production for decades into the future.»

One characterisation of the IPCC is that it is politically motivated to exaggerate the dangers of global warming and the level of human influence on climate change.

In addition to rising temperatures, the report discussed a variety of «other possible effects of an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide», including melting of the Antarctic ice cap, rise of sea level, warming of sea water, increased acidity of fresh waters (which also applies to the danger of ocean acidification, global warming's evil twin), and an increase in plant photosynthesis.

They are talking about the dangers of anthropogenic global warming, but include the sea level rise from all warming effects, most of which occured long before we were burning fossil fuels at anywhere near current rates.

Scientists will warn this week that rising sea levels, triggered by global warming, pose a far greater danger to the planet than previously estimated.

Given even larger underestimations in sea level rise and Arctic ice disappearance I assume you're point is that climate scientists have been overly cautious about the dangers of global warming.

Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.

«Still, with this somewhat unique bid, 50 % lower than Acwa Power's winning bid in the previous phase II submitted just 18 months ago, the danger arises that Dubai's tender raises global expectations of the cost of solar to a level that can not be quite matched elsewhere, making the industry get somewhat ahead of itself.»

The Guardian: «Given that sea level has risen faster than predicted, if you're arguing against the dangers posed by global warming, sea level is a poor choice.»

The dangers of attributing sea level rise and Hurricane Sandy to global warming to one side, it is these claims much more than his «science advocacy» which reveal Gavin's values.

«From a global perspective, the level of warming is about to enter the danger zone for coral reefs and it is certainly arguable that it is already too late for some of these systems to «adapt naturally,»» said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University.

, he says the idea that 2015 was the year in which global average temperatures passed the 1 °C milestone, halfway to the danger level, is mistaken.

and has spoken extensively in a wide range of forums to explain the environmental dangers we face on a global level.

Instead of committing ourselves to 2.9 °C warming above pre-industrial levels as in business as usual, we're only committed to 2 °C, which keeps us right at the cusp of the global warming «danger limit.»