Sentences with phrase «global warming peaking»

In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with global warming peaking just over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.

In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with global warming peaking just over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.

Looks like the denialist claim that global warming peaked in 1998 is clearly shot down (as if it had any legs to stand on in the first place): http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2116873.ece

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If in the 1970s we had begun a program of efficient use and switching gradually to other sources of energy, «peak oil» would remain quite far in the future and there might still be some chance to reduce global warming.

These models currently predict that as a result of today's global climate change, Antarctica will warm twice as much as the rest of the planet, though it won't reach its peak for a couple of hundred years.

The push to peak global emissions and keep warming below 2 degrees Celsius has opened rifts over whether the world should embrace stepping stones like nuclear and natural gas power or go full tilt toward a 100 percent zero - carbon renewable energy economy.

Solutions to environmental problems ranging from global warming to peak oil — and how the environment is playing a role in this year's elections

The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.

Vikas Pakhe Global warming is now taking a real peak.

U.S. uranium mining has diminished since its peak in the 1980s, but with the push to expand nuclear power as a way to fight global warming a resurgence may be in the offing

To stop the Earth warming more than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, global emissions must peak at 44 gigatonnes in 2020 and then fall.

Regardless of when China's emissions peak might come — the year of 2020, 2022 or 2025 — Yang said that falling Chinese emissions have already sent out a positive signal to the international campaign against global warming.

A cryptic chemical weather log kept by Tarawa Atoll's stony coral in the tropical Pacific archipelago has been cracked, helping scientists explain a century of peaks and troughs in global warming — and inflaming fears that a speedup will follow the recent slowdown.

This warm phase had begun in the Cretaceous period, peaked in the early Eocene, and continued to the end of the Eocene, when global temperatures dropped and ice sheets formed over the Antarctic.

With modernization and development in our lives pollution has reached its peak; giving rise to global warming and human illness.

Peak global warming is ∼ 1.1 °C, declining to less than 1 °C by mid-century, if CO2 emissions are reduced 6 % / year beginning in 2013.

The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi Published by Little, Brown; ages 14 & up Paolo Bacigalupi's debut YA novel (and Printz Award winner) Ship Breaker imagined a future America dependent on scavengers for survival after global warming and peak oil have irrevocably altered the landscape.

Also the stripping of forest cover from foothills might locally warm nearby peaks without necessarily implying global climate change.

Net energy gain is going down (it's more energy intensive to pump oil out of deep water than out of a ground - based well under pressure) coupled with peak oil that is either here or near in time, and global warming mandates reducing carbon emissions.

We are beginning to experience the effects of global warming TIMES peak oil TIMES fishery collapse TIMES water scaricity TIMES arable land depletion TIMES despeciation — all right now.

And the situation is far worse than one of «we are beginning to experience the effects of global warming AND peak oil AND fishery colapse, and so on.»

I've said countless times that peak oil and global warming are imminent and extremely serious problems, and yet people keep assuming that because I'm not predicting the fall of modern civilization in 10 years that I think it's all not that big a deal.

Thus doubling the solar wind velocity [which is what happens during these solar wind peaks of 500 - 1000 km / s and more increases the dynamic pressure pulse four fold, increases the electrical field - aligned currents, which then increases ionospheric Joule heating which contribute to global warming.

AN ANCIENT civilisation may have rose up and died out quickly scientists have said after discovering a short - lived but massive peak in global warming in pre-historic times.

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

Should this be the case, they could be deemed to be more of a threat to my grandchild than that represented by global warming denialists (many of whom are pro nuclear and concerned about peak oil and population overshoot).

I'm afraid that global warming and the issue of peak oil is about to burst their bubble.

And if you buy the IPCC's reports (figuratively speaking) the world is only about eight years away from the «deadline» the IPCC has identified for allowing emissions to peak and begin their descent if the world is to stand a 50 - 50 chance of holding global warming to about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by century's end.

The Diffenbaugh report is saying if global warming produces 35 heat peak days during summer in CA premium viticultural lands, the wine will be inferior quality; that is right.

The paper also finds that several significant past climate fluctuations — including a warm spell that peaked around 1100 A.D. called the medieval warm period and the so - called little ice age from the 1400s through the 1700s — were global in scope.

So, even conservative estimates of committed warming indicate that we have to urgently reduce radiative forcing, in other words peak global GHG emissions as soon as possible and then reduce them as quickly as possible by reducing our use of fossil fuels drastically, if we want to have a chance at keeping warming under 2C.

Although global warming will certainly be bad in itself, the likely prospect of beyond peak oil will compound the situation drastically, with little help to reducing forcings and the rate of global warming.

I know it's a cynical, even depressing, viewpoint, but on the two really huge issues facing us today, global warming and peak oil, that really is how we need to approach the mainstream public as a whole.

In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the global warming «community» — by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by «dramatic changes» in temperatures.

* My major point (in analogy to peak oil / global warming) is that the issues argue against each other.

If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicyle friendly.»

I sincerely hope that you are not serious in maintaining the following: The peak warming is linearly proportional to the cumulative carbon emitted It doesn't matter much how rapidly the carbon is emitted The warming you get when you stop emitting carbon is what you are stuck with for the next thousand years The climate recovers only slightly over the next ten thousand years At the mid-range of IPCC climate sensitivity, a trillion tonnes cumulative carbon gives you about 2C global mean warming above the pre-industrial temperature.

A 2025 global CO2 peaking date is roughly associated with a 550 PPM target (and 3 degrees C mean warming relative to pre-industrial temps).

Peaking oil and natural gas extraction is going to accelerate global warming when many desperate people use wood and coal for heating and cooking.

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

I get endless angry e-mail thanks to my own web site, The Cost of Energy, for talking about global warming and peak oil, a combination that darkens the skies with deniers, I can assure you.

The turning point must come soon: If global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2 °C above preindustrial values, global emissions need to peak between 2015 and 2020 and then decline rapidly.

When I read Dot Earth, I get irritated by those who deny the realities of global warming or peak oil or overpopulation; who are unwilling to change in thinking or in attitude or in lifestyle.

If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»

I don't think it's about global warming or peak oil per se, it seems there was some kind of fireball nuke attack or comet strike that sent the Earth into its tragedy in the book, but the story is absolutely rivetting.

More and more, I think the Evil Trio is Global Warming, Peak Oil, and Water, and I'm not sure of the priority.

-- Keep global warming below 2oC, implying a peak in global CO2 emissions no later than 2015 and recognise that even a warming of 2oC carries a very high risk of serious impacts and the need for major adaptation efforts.

This is not surprising, since he is an oilman, but it is an ill - advised tactic, since it will both increase contributions to global warming and make a negligible impact on fuel costs or eventual peak oil production.

You couldn't be more right, Andrew, with the following statement: «If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»»

However, global warming associated with the event normally lags several months behind that peak and as a result, 2016 could be even hotter that 2015, the warmest year on record.