Sentences with phrase «holding average global warming»

Yale Environment 360: It is becoming increasingly common to hear very knowledgeable people say that the possibility of holding average global warming to under 2 degrees Celsius is slipping away from us.

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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.

After all, warmer air can hold more water, and some research suggests global warming could increase California's average rain and snowfall.

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»).

Consider the quasi-official global goal (codified, for example, in the Copenhagen Accord) to hold total planetary warming to 2 °C (Earth surface average) above pre-industrial levels.

The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.

The IPCC reports have guided the European Union in formally adopting a specific goal of holding global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average pre-industrial temperature of the mid-19th century.