Sentences with phrase «limit further global warming»

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

Not exact matches

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.

The world is getting further off track in limiting global warming with setbacks in Japan and Australia outweighing positive signals from the United States and China, a study showed on Wednesday.

«The results imply that reforestation projects and efforts to avoid further deforestation are of the utmost importance in our pursuit to limit global warming to below 2oC, as stated in the Paris climate agreement.»

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

A note came back from the Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who has lately been pressing for the United States to intensify efforts to limit a danger both far more concretely understood than global warming and far less in vogue as a serious threat — the reality that a very large rock will inevitably head on a collision course for Earth.

Once settled in at my new journalistic home, ProPublica, I plan on digging in further on this and other instances in which the main factors exacerbating environmental threats are policies and practices that can be changed promptly, even as the grand challenge of limiting global warming is pursued.

We need to not be alarmist about the potential of this alarm, but realize that it is something to be alarmed about if we let this «little» global warming thing go too far... on top of the other reasonably alarming things that are already going on, such as hitting thermal limits for crops, etc..

As a result there is a huge gap between national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions that have been made thus far under the UNFCCC and global ghg emissions reductions that are necessary to limit warming to 2 oC, a warming limit that has been agreed to by the international community as necessary to prevent very dangerous climate change.

That's far short of the global goal to limit warming to 1.5 - 2 degrees C.

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.

This will be an important moment as it will summarize how far they are in total from hitting the internationally agreed goal of limiting global warming to below two degrees.

Countries» new climate plans will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory, but they still don't go far enough to limit warming to 2 degrees C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

Collectively, the studies make it clear that the INDCs will substantially bend the global emissions trajectory below our current path, but still don't go far enough to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid some of the worst climate impacts.

These are all nascent technologies that must be developed if we are to move beyond carbon — further proof that we do not actually have the technologies we need to meet the COP21 climate goal of limiting global warming to 2 ºC.

As far as the rest of your post, along with Gavin's point there's also the fact that the third world, with its limited financial resources, will suffer far more from the consequences of global warming than the first world.

Other corporations are expected to make similar commitments, which would further boost the chances of limiting global warming to 2 °C -.