Sentences with phrase «keep additional global warming»

Other things being «normal», it is the peak CO2 amount in a scenario (1) that would keep additional global warming from exceeding 1 °C (1.8 °F).

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But to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and keep the world on a path that could limit global warming to 2 degrees C, IEA projects that an additional 18 percent, or $ 5 trillion, in cumulative investment would be needed through 2035.

Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to prevent very dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional warming, if the international community seeks to limit warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that global emissions do not exceed the number of tons of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to levels that will cause warming of 2 degrees C.

In our on - going effort to keep up with the science, today we update our previous summary with two additional recently published lower - than - IPCC climate sensitivity estimates — one made by Troy Masters and another by Alexander Otto and colleagues (including several co-authors not typically associated with global warming in moderation, or «lukewarming»).