Sentences with phrase «keep further global warming»

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Paul Cook from Tearfund added: «This is a disappointing statement on climate change that does not go far enough in outlining how the G7 plans to meet the agreement to keep global warming well below 2 °C made in Paris to tackle climate change.

Even if those and other nations» promises under the Paris agreement are kept, global temperatures may yet soar well above 2 °C (3.6 °F) compared with pre-industrial times — roughly twice the amount of warming recorded so far.

An ECS of three degrees C means that if we are to limit global warming to below two degrees C forever, we need to keep CO2 concentrations far below twice preindustrial levels, closer to 450 ppm.

Now, with regional climates shifting as a result of global warming, it is unclear just how far — and how fast — organisms will need to travel to keep up with moving climates.

Realistic large - scale solar panel coverage could cause less than half a degree of local warming, far less than the several degrees in global temperature rise predicted over the next century if we keep burning fossil fuels.

So far, global warming / climate change has been relatively benign for many people (while anything but benign for others), but keep in mind that it is not yet as warm as it will be based on only the increase in CO2 so far, never mind that the increase continues unabated.

However, they are not willing to support a similar tax to keep them safe from a global warming disaster, despite the fact that the global damages would be far greater than the damage from the September 11th terrorist attacks.

If a time would ever come when the permafrost returns to northern U.S., as far south as New Jersey as it once did, it's not inconceivable that Congress, caught in the grip of the global warming zealots, would keep all the laws on the books they wrote in the name of fighting global warming.

Every strategy was designed for the purpose of keeping truth seekers from finding out how flawed the data is on climate change and global warming — and from discovering just how far these radical green activists will go to push their political agenda.

He is being accused of furthering a «political agenda» by dissenting on global warming, but what if the reverse is actually true - that it's Big Climate that is using its «political agenda» to stifle dissent and keep the industry chugging along in perpetuity.

Where the carefully kept and carefully adjusted long term data from from entire developed countries are further adjusted towards warming using unknown and untested and unverified algorithms by the supposed centre for global temperature data, all unbeknowns to the official met organisation of that country [Iceland]

An ECS of three degrees C means that if we are to limit global warming to below two degrees C forever, we need to keep CO2 concentrations far below twice preindustrial levels, closer to 450 ppm.

LONDON, 3 April, 2018 — Two separate studies have calculated what it would take to keep the Arctic ice frozen through the summer months — and thus preserve the precious polar ecosystem and help contain further global warming.

COP21, also known as the Paris Climate Conference, brought parties together to achieve a universal goal on climate: keeping global warming below 2 ° C. «This is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day,» stated the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon.

The Clean Power Plan aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing fossil fuel - fired power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 — still a far cry from what is needed to meet our commitments under the Paris Climate Accord to keep global warming at or below 2 degrees Celsius.

For instance, climate science and climate politics have moved unexpectedly quickly toward a broad understanding that we need to keep total human - caused global warming as far as possible below 2 °C (3.6 °F)-- and ideally to no more than 1.5 °C.

Now, alternatively, if the world wants to avoid that balmy fate and keep global warming below 2 °C, then carbon intensity will have to improve dramatically — far more dramatically than we've seen over the last four decades.

Two separate studies have calculated what it would take to keep the Arctic ice frozen through the summer months — and thus preserve the precious polar ecosystem and help contain further global warming.

It is vital for that debate that we have the conversation about 5 % being inadequate, but the science and the geopolitics are clear: far steeper targets are required in order for Australia to play any reasonable role in the global effort to keep warming to less than 2 °C.

(The only one I can think of, by the only really solidly qualified contrarian, Lindzen, who also claimed that tobacco wasn't linked to lung cancer, came up with an Iris theory that has been thoroughly repudiated (recent studies have in fact continued to strongly show increased atmospheric moisture), but his theory of a significant enough decrease to keep the earth from significantly warming at the same time this radical shift toward lack of global cloud cover (and far more drought everywhere?)

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.

And the 1988 predictions are going further off course year - by - year as the global warming has now stopped for a period of time, while Hansen's forecasts keep shooting upward like a NASA rocket.

So far countries are not on track to achieving the goals they agreed to in the Paris Agreement of keeping global warming well below 2 °C.

And the will Paris Agreement, which strengthened the global climate goal to keep warming «well below 2C», lead to policies and investments that further erode the market for oil?

In a May 10, 2016, article, Almost Everything You Know About Climate Change Solutions Is Outdated, Part 1, Joe Romm says climate science and climate politics have moved unexpectedly quickly toward a broad understanding that we need to keep total human - caused global warming as far as possible below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F)-- and ideally to no more than 1.5 degrees C.