Sentences with phrase «human emission pathways»
The model accounts systematically for key sources of uncertainty stemming from human emission pathways, global climate sensitivity and regional shifts in climate change.
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«the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios or Representative Concentration Pathways reflect static assumptions of human emissions behaviors in response to climate changEmissions Scenarios or Representative Concentration Pathways reflect static assumptions of human emissions behaviors in response to climate changemissions behaviors in response to climate change.»
The long - term sea level rise will depend critically on the cumulative carbon emission pathway humans follow, which determines the sustained global warming that can be maintained for centuries to millennia.
The rate and magnitude of future human - induced climate change and its associated impacts are determined by human choices defining alternative socio - economic futures and mitigation actions that influence emission pathways.
It is for this reason that the scenario framework distinguishes between «pathways,» which describe one component (such as RCPs or SSPs) of integrated scenarios, and «scenarios» themselves, which combine pathways with other information such as emissions, climate projections and policy assumptions to produce integrated descriptions of future climate and human system development.
The expectation is that the human contribution will be larger than the natural contribution under any possible future emission pathway and relative to now or to pre-industrial times.
Given that emissions from burning coal are the single biggest human source of climate changing greenhouse gases, the communique says that, the push for Coal is a betrayal of the commitment and obligation of governments under the United Nations to address climate change and shift to sustainable pathways.»
The top graph shows the annual human CO2 emissions pathways and the lower graph the cumulative emissions.
Several chemicals that might occur together in environmental media (water, soil, air), food items, biota and humans as a result of emission from various sources and via multiple pathways.
This is further complicated by some political rejection of science - based future climate projections and unwillingness to consider alternative economic development pathways to lowering the emission of carbon dioxide and other GHGs from the Human — Earth systems.
The topics addressed include critical thresholds and key vulnerabilities of the climate system, impacts on human and natural systems, socioeconomic costs and benefits of emissions pathways, and technological options for meeting different stabilisation levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.