Sentences with phrase «if climate change ended»

But if climate change ended up generating more clouds, then these clouds would reflect sunlight, which would most likely have a cooling effect.

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I think it would just be tragic if what is now a 40 - year record of land - use change and climate change were to end with Landsat 8.

The full effects on the global climate will come later, and even if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere stabilises at double today's levels the International Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) estimates that by end of the 21st century the global temperature will have increased by between 1.5 °C and 4.5 °C.

«If we are lucky and the climate sensitivity is at the low end, and we have a strong agreement in 2015, then I think we stand a chance to limit climate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwiclimate sensitivity is at the low end, and we have a strong agreement in 2015, then I think we stand a chance to limit climate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwiclimate change to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwicchange to 2 °C,» says Corinne Le Quéré of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in NorwiClimate Change Research in NorwicChange Research in Norwich, UK.

For example, burning compressed natural gas emits roughly 30 percent less CO2 than burning diesel but, if the new methane leakage estimates are true, the practice ends up being worse for climate change.

Students can opt for choices that mitigate the effects of climate change, like putting housing next to transit, while «if you make other choices, you end up with waterfront property» because of flooding, he said.

That temperature rise could nearly double by the end of this century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't curbed, according to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Thus it is very important to know what the real impact of historical solar changes is, as 0.1 K in the past, results in climate sensitivity for anthropogenic at the high end, while 0.9 K results in a very low effect of anthropogenic, if the instrumental temperature trend of the last 1.5 century is used as reference.

In the last 100 years, ocean pH today has already fallen by.1 unit — 10 times faster than during that extinction period — and could drop another.3 units by the end of the century if predictions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are correct.

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

If your corporation believes in a bottom - up, cost - effective approach to financing nature for positive impact, join us on our worldwide tour to debut the Shared Value Platform, launching in Paris at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change at the end of November 2015.

If climate change is on your mind, maybe head out east to hear master realist painter Alexis Rockman discuss his environmentally - concerned work with Parrish Director Terrie Sultan, then check out his show at the space titled «East End Field Drawings.»

It seems as if Flusser's concept of the global totalitarian apparatus, hypothesized in 1985, has today come to fruition in the form of climate change, the intelligent war machine, the surveillance state, factory automation and the seemingly unavoidable, locked in place, systemic flows which forecast an inevitable and catastrophic end to the Anthropocene.

I am not sure I understand Andy's question number (5), but «nature» involves many species: even if some parts of «nature» may survive global warming at the end (as parts of it have survived natural climate change events in the past), many parts of it are already going extinct and we are to blame this time around.

If this proved the end of the warming hiatus, then it would be dramatic in the realm of climate - change news.

Wigley made a controversial but I think correct point a few years back that if the real concern of Kyoto and IPCC is the really severe climate change at the end of the century, the cutting emissions now will have less effect on that than cutting emissions closer to that time.

But the talk about water withdrawal is genuine, even if like other long - time - coming environmental and climate changes, the river will see plenty of seasonal ups and downs before and end comes.

In the end, it appears that climate change is outrunning a ponderous, if well - meaning, international process.

In other words, if climate sensitivity is toward the low end, 2 K is more dangerous than we currently give it credit for, and arguments for low risk because of low sensitivity are less valid because that means that more ecological changes occur for a given temperature change than currently thought.

So what, I am told, if action on climate change is based on some exaggerations and false claims to certainty, isn't the end goal important enough to justify bending the truth just a bit?»

If Mann had wanted to point to an opposite end to the spectrum of ways in which scientists can contribute to public discourse on global warming science and risks, a better choice (in my view) would have been Susan Solomon's handling of the rollout of the 2007 science report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

I was wondering for some time now, how much the findings of the work of scientists, be it the IPCC, be it the PIK in Potsdam or what have you, can be taken for granted in order for policy makers to make valuable decisions (e.g. cutting carbon emissions by half by 2050) and if the uncertainties in the models might outweigh certain decisions to reduce carbon emissions so that in the end it might happen that these uncertainties make these decisions obsolete, because they do not suffice to avoid «dangerous climate change»?

If we define «Adaptation to climate change» as ending the use of fossil fuels and quickly building renewable energy infrastructure, then yes, there is opposition — from established fossil fuel interests, mostly.

If overturned, the California rule could «signal the end of the Bush administration's resistance to public demands for stronger climate change policies,» and force automakers to build vehicles that exceed the recently raised CAFE standard.

As long as the collapse of civilization is a potential (if unlikely) consequence of global warming (climate change leads to agricultural collapse leads to war leads to the end of civilization), it's worth paying those premiums.

Global warming will create hundreds of millions of climate change migrants by the end of the century if governments do not act, France's environment minister has warned.

Argentina's crops could end up benefiting from climate change if the country handles well the agricultural sector and the water resources.

If we do not act to end climate change, other cities are likely to find themselves in crises similar to the current situation in Cape Town.

After all, if the government has the right to punish those who merely question climate change, then it also has the power to punish climate alarmists who falsely predicted the world would come to an end by now due to rising temperatures.

Even with the Kyoto Protocol due to expire at the end of this year, Obama persists in giving highest priority to climate change policy if re-elected.

If climate change does not slow down and global temperatures continue to rise, it's likely that Arctic sea ice will completely disappear by the end of the century.

The British medical journal The Lancet, known for its tobacco Prohibitionist and anti-Israel views, created a commission on Health and Climate Change to promote, as if it were science, the view that «to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified toClimate Change to promote, as if it were science, the view that «to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified to Change to promote, as if it were science, the view that «to avoid the risk of potentially catastrophic climate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified toclimate change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified to change impacts requires total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to be kept below 2900 billion tonnes by the end of the century» — not a calculation that physicians, biologists, and the like are particularly qualified to make.)

Even the IEA's major climate change study from June, which was in - part based on their World Energy Outlook from last November, also predicted a much greater global temperature rise of between 3.6 and 5.3 degrees Celsius before the end of the century if we can't move quickly enough away from fossil fuels, along with a sea - level rise of between 4 and 6 meters.

As I wrote at the end of that blog, I was very proud of the result, Explaining climate change in 200 words or less is, if I may say so myself.

If Black is any indication the BBC hasn't really changed at all yet (despite ending its daily «Climate Doomsday Report» by David Shukman) though the ratio of skeptical to believer comments at Black's site sure has.

According to Lomborg, implementing policies to combat climate change right now «end up doing a lot less good than we could do if we were a lot more rational about it.»

Even if climate change is only moderate by the end of the century, there will be an average daily increase in demand of 2.8 %, and daily peak demand could rise by up to 7 %.

In her September 25 article on the latest UN climate scare report, Eilperin wrote: «Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.climate scare report, Eilperin wrote: «Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.Climate researchers now predict the planet will warm by 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century even if the world's leaders fulfill their most ambitious climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.climate pledges, a much faster and broader scale of change than forecast just two years ago, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations Environment Program.»

* (For a good reason, too — there are so inordinately few somewhat qualified or learned and somewhat credentialed individuals on this subject who take the manufactured «anti Climate Change theory: view one that should be pursued by nearly every scientist on the planet were it to have merit, as it is a far better end result if true, yet nevertheless is not, but persists in fact due to the enormous ideological, macroeconomically frightened (and myopically presumptive), and «good thing going» industry based pressures, behind it.)

I confess I do occasionally wonder if Pope Francis, jumping very belatedly onto the climate - change bandwagon, has gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick...

According to a study published this year by Climate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the currenClimate Central, a non-partisan organization of scientists and journalists who focus on climate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the currenclimate change, nearly half of Galveston's homes face a yearly risk of flooding by the end of the century if heat - trapping emissions continue to be spewed at the current rate.

«If at the end of this century the average temperature has continued to rise,» he wrote, then it would be «firmly established» that CO2 could cause climate change.

Weak climate change targets could mean the end of coral reefs by 2100 if «urgent action» isn't taken.

If global - warming emissions continue to grow at today's rates, scientists expect rising temperatures to render about one - third of the Northwest's habitat for salmon and other coldwater fish unsuitable by the end of the century.2, 12 Climate change poses another obstacle to the already monumental challenge of restoring depleted salmon stocks.2

When the interglacial ends, then we will face some serious climate change (if we're still around).

Then he ended with this «We currently seem to be operating under the «no regrets» climate policy first formulated under the first Bush administration, which basically states that if anything undesirable should happen because of global climate change, we will then deal with that problem after the fact.»

James Delingpole makes the point very clearly at the end of the entry on «Global Warming» in his book How to be Right: «if the climate change doom mongers are really so sure all the evidence is on their side, why are they so keen to stifle any arguments which threaten to prove them wrong?»

In order to understand more about what the human impact of high - end climate change might be, and therefore what would happen if a successful agreement can not be reached at Copenhagen, the UK's Met Office Hadley Centre has produced a map outlining some of the impacts that may occur if the global average temperature rises by 4 °C (7 °F) above the pre-industrial climate average.

If so, then with very many, very strong, climate - change hockey - sticks already in the scientific literature — and with multiple further hockey - sticks foreseeably in - the - pipeline — then realistically there can be only one rational end - point: