Sentences with phrase «global temperatures rising»

With global temperatures rising and vast stores of fossil fuels waiting to be tapped, we are in a «precarious — ... almost - but - not - quite - finally hopeless — position.»

Here is a recent finding that should give people pause when they might be contemplating any delays in fundamental change: New finding shows climate change can happen in a geological instant Oct 07, 2013 by Ken Branson, at http://phys.org/news/2013-10-climate-geological-instant.html 13 years for global temperatures rising by 5 degrees centigrade 55 million years ago when CO2 levels doubled?

Multiple independent analyses of long - term temperature records show average global temperatures rising as greenhouse gas concentrations have risen.

If carbon emissions continue on their current trajectory, with global temperatures rising by 2.6 C to 4.8 °C by 2100, applications could increase by 188 percent, leading to an extra 660,000 applications filed each year.

«When countries adopted the historic Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise, they also recognized that achieving that goal would take broad - based global climate action in all sectors, public and private,» she said.

This means working out what they can emit, as part of a real effort to limit global temperature rise.

Scientists say such an achievement could be crucial to the goal laid out in last year's Paris Agreement of holding global temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F) by 2100.

Business must align with the SDGs and the goal of limiting global temperature rise below 2 degrees.»

The accord - the first comprehensive global pact on climate change — commits participating nations to keep global temperature rises to «well below» two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

With the COP21 Climate Summit occurring in Paris later this year, this new Food Waste Resolution, together with the CGF's work on deforestation and low - carbon refrigeration, demonstrates the industry's commitment to play a leading role in limiting global temperature rises to 2 °C.

With this third resolution, we believe that the CGF is taking additional important steps in contributing to the international action on preserving natural resources, especially water, and to limiting the global temperature rise to 2 °C.»

Achieving the 2025 target will require a further emission reduction of 9 - 11 % beyond our 2020 target compared to the 2005 baseline and a substantial acceleration of the 2005 - 2020 annual pace of reduction, to 2.3 - 2.8 percent per year, or an approximate doubling;» Substantial global emission reductions are needed to keep the global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, and the 2025 target is consistent with a path to deep decarbonization.

Unison is calling on the government to impose a target of an 80 per cent cut in carbon emissions, warning a 60 per cent reduction will still see global temperatures rise by as much as five degrees.

Climate models predict that as global temperatures rise over the next seven decades, subtropical regions like the American Southwest will get drier, while more northern areas, including much of Canada, will get wetter.

Reaching the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, as agreed to at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), will require an unprecedented level of international scientific cooperation in both climate science and technology development.

As global temperatures rise and permafrost thaws, the previously frozen organic material begins to decay and releases greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide.

Recent data from NASA and the UK's Hadley Centre show that the average global temperature rose by 0.33 °C between 1990 and 2006.

But by the same token, as global temperatures rise, the atmosphere can hold more water vapor.

This may have helped offset greenhouse warming from about 1940 to 1980, when global temperatures rose little before rising steeply.

Carbon concentrations that high are associated with a global temperature rise of 2.4 degrees Celsius, according to IPCC estimates.

However, solar variability alone can not explain the post-1970 global temperature trends, especially the global temperature rise in the last three decades of the 20th Century, which has been attributed by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

To have any chance of limiting the global temperature rise to 2 °C, we have to limit future emissions to about 500 gigatonnes of CO2.

If global temperatures rise by more than two degrees Celsius, there may be no more Greenland ice.

Was the global temperature rise due to an increase in the Sun's activity?

The team predicts that as global temperatures rise over the next century, Mongolia will first become drier, then wetter.

Many governments believe that holding the average global temperature rise caused by man - made warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels gives the world the best chance to avoid dangerous climate change.

However, in the 2013 Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the IPCC concluded that «Modelling indicates that SRM methods, if realizable, have the potential to substantially offset a global temperature rise, but they would also modify the global water cycle, and would not reduce ocean acidification.»

But David Karoly and Clive Hamilton note that the Australian government also agreed to do its fair share to keep global temperature rise below 2 °C, which is a key objective of the Paris accord.

Give them more data spelling out the correlation between increased carbon emissions and global temperature rise, the thinking goes, and they'll get it.

As we flood the atmosphere with more CO2, and average global temperatures rise, some areas of the planet are getting wetter.

But here's your question: why we should be concerned even with the global temperature rise that has been predicted, let's say by 2050, of probably around 2 degrees C; one should understand that in the Ice Age — the depths of the Ice Age — the Earth was colder on a global average by about 5 degrees C.

The rate of global temperature rise mayhave hit a plateau, but a climate crisis still looms in the near future

Also, it is quite likely that, as global temperature rises, diseases that were previously found only in warmer areas of the world may show up increasingly in other, previously cooler areas, where people have not yet developed natural defenses against them.

As global temperature rises, most of the extra heat in the atmosphere — about 90 percent — sinks into the ocean.

Risk assessments of global temperature rise greater than 5 °C have not been undertaken by the IPCC.

During the PETM, atmospheric carbon dioxide more than doubled and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees Celsius, an increase that is comparable with the change that may occur by later next century on modern Earth.

But it could leave the polar bear at risk from an influx of infections as global temperatures rise.

If adaptation for survival in the Arctic environment has led to a less versatile immune system, then Arctic species such as the polar bear may be at risk from an influx of pathogens as global temperatures rise, the researchers warn.

A release of 50 billion tonnes of methane would bring forward by 15 to 35 years the date at which global temperature rise exceeds 2 ˚C above pre-industrial levels, the model shows, with most of the damage in the poorer parts of Africa, Asia and South America.

But the authors also argued that it's technically feasible for countries to deliver almost 60 percent of the reductions needed to keep below a 2 - degree - Celsius global temperature rise above preindustrial levels.

But at the same time, they're also affected by climate, for example, budding earlier in the season as global temperatures rise.

Michael Marshall's look at geoengineering to keep global temperature rises below 2 °C (12 October, p 10) suggested ocean liming...

«This joint announcement provides both practical and political momentum towards a new, universal climate agreement in Paris in late 2015 that is meaningful, forward - looking and recognizes that combating climate change is not a five - or 10 - year plan — but is a long - term commitment to keep a global temperature rise under 2 degrees [Celsius] throughout this century,» said U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres.

«As global temperatures rise, we begin to see areas of permafrost thawing and releasing mercury that was locked in the soil.»

Under control runs without any pollution controls, the global temperature rose by 2.5 ˚C — plus or minus about 0.7 ˚C — by 2070.

Current policies, including US targets set by the last president, Barack Obama, add up to a global temperature rise of...

As global temperature rise, sea level rises too, meaning hurricane surges can reach further inland.

The global pact is supposed to review the best available science every few years to inform progress toward limiting global temperature rise.

In addition to reducing GHG, Harwatt and her team — which included Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH; Gidon Eshel, PhD; the late Sam Soret, PhD; and William Ripple, PhD — concluded that shifting from animal - sourced to plant - sourced foods could help avert global temperature rise.

In scenarios in which the average global temperature rises less than 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, short - term measures to reduce SLCF had only a minor effect on the long - term rise in temperature.