Sentences with phrase «keep dangerous global warming»

The kid plaintiffs, ages 9 to 20, allege the federal government is doing far too little to keep dangerous global warming in check, and is actually creating warming by leasing federal property for fossil fuel extraction.

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The big question is will they be enough to help keep global warming below 2 °C, a politically agreed threshold generally deemed to represent the level of dangerous climate change.

That's the message one researcher has for the planet's physicians, the climate scientists who are diagnosing whether a new international agreement can keep us from busting the boundary of dangerous global warming.

To minimize the risk of dangerous global warming, some scientists suggest keeping concentrations of heattrapping emissions in the atmosphere below 450 parts per million (CO2 equivalent).

Such higher levels of warming would make it much more difficult for countries to keep the global temperature rise to below 2C, as they agreed to do at the landmark Paris climate summit last year, to avoid dangerous extreme weather and negative effects on food security.

Keep all this in mind when the President and other Washington politicos bring up «dangerous manmade global warming,» insist that we slash fossil fuel use, and tell us we need to give poor countries billions of dollars a year to compensate them for «losses and damages» they incurred due to warming we caused.

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.

Every country would voluntarily pledge to restrain its greenhouse gas emissions and meet regularly at the United Nations to ratchet up ambitions over time — all in the hopes of keeping global warming below the «dangerous» level of 2 °C.

Problem is, it's pretty much just a retread of the path the U.S. is already on, which isn't enough to keep global warming from crossing the «dangerous» two degree Celsius threshold — a point above which scientific consensus paints an increasingly bleak future, with global impacts capable of destabilizing human society.

Dr. Roy Spencer is a well - known global warming skeptic — while accepting that CO2 will cause some warming, he believes that natural feedbacks will keep warming from being dangerous.

PARIS (December 8, 2015)-- The Science Based Targets initiative announced today that 114 companies have now committed to set emissions reduction targets in line with what scientists say is necessary to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius.