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According to IGSD this has delayed the onset of irreversible climate change by 12 years, topping off the worst and so far preventing important climate tipping - points.

At this watershed moment in human history, the architecture, planning, and building community must play a critical role in preventing irreversible climate change by working to achieve:

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If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.»

«For the sake of future generations who could be harmed by irreversible climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold science against ideology,» he said in a statement.

The draft report says it is «very likely» that the past three decades have all been warmer than any time in the past 800 years; that we could see almost 9 °C of warming by 2300; and that «a large fraction of climate change is largely irreversible on human timescales».

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the world will rise by 1.5 m.

But it's important to emphasize that if southwest North America moves into a dust bowl by mid-century or later (PNAS Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812721106.full.pdf+html), there will be suffering closer to home, even for people on other parts of the continent.

In the report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's top scientists warned that global warming is unequivocally man - made and will become irreversible if we do not act now to reduce the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

The commentary by Parry et al advises us to prepare to adapt to climate changes of at least 4 °C, even though they recognize that it may not be possible to buy our way out of most of the damage (to natural systems, for example, including the irreversible loss of many plant and animal species).

The idea (quoted in the United Nations Environmental Programme report) that in order to be reasonably sure of avoiding dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change, a minimum of a 50 % cut in global emissions compared with 1990 levels is required by 2050, is based firmly on the IPCC - led consensus, contrary to the impression you appear to have.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the Geneva - based international body set up by the UN to disseminate «climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.Climate Change (IPCC)-- the Geneva - based international body set up by the UN to disseminate «climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.&Change (IPCC)-- the Geneva - based international body set up by the UN to disseminate «climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.&change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.»

The team imagined that, by 2117, irreversible climate change would force humankind to establish a new habitat in space.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

Bill McKibben, a high - profile climate campaigner with 350.org, said: «For scientists, conservative by nature, to use «serious, pervasive, and irreversible» to describe the effects of climate falls just short of announcing that climate change will produce a zombie apocalypse plus random beheadings plus Ebola.»

Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Here, for example, is a classic by Susan Solomon that proportedly shows that «climate change (due to CO2) is irreversible» by exclusively referencing other models, which themselves never reference actual data.

Attempts to limit climate change by removing carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere would not prevent the irreversible damage to the oceans, according to a new study.

The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.

If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.

Pam Pearson, ICCI's founder and director, introduced the report on the risks of irreversible climate change in the cryosphere − the scientific name for the parts of the world that are covered in ice and snow for part or all of the year — by saying: «We are worried by the disconnect between cryosphere dynamics and the policy response.»

The near - final draft, approved Friday by representatives of more than 140 governments meeting in Valencia, Spain, said global warming is «unequivocal» and said man's actions are heading toward «abrupt or irreversible climate changes and impacts.»

The InsideClimate News series shows Exxon's own models confirmed a «clear scientific consensus» of the severity of climate change, and warned that by the time the rise in temperatures became unmistakable it might be irreversible.

Given this focus, the analytic emphasis of this chapter is on people and systems that may be adversely affected by climate change, particularly where impacts could have serious and / or irreversible consequences.

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

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CTPs are irreversible, uncertain events that can be triggered by climate - change - induced high temperatures and that cause large damages or disruptions to the climate system.

The 2008 paper, Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, by Solomon et al., says that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop, due to the thermal inertia ofIrreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, by Solomon et al., says that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop, due to the thermal inertia ofirreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop, due to the thermal inertia of the oceans.

If we relied solely on renewables and we found that they by themselves could not supply enough power to meet our «needs» and we fell back onto (or were never weaned off) the fossil fuel economy then we would have irreversible global climate change.

On the website onehundredmonths, conceived by the NEF and others, we can see a second - by - second countdown of one hundred months (8.3 years) until irreversible climate change sets in (their data).