Sentences with phrase «low emissions scenario»

Meanwhile, we have set CO2 back to pliocene levels and by even low emission scenarios will put CO2 back to Oligocene - miocene levels and you do nt think that might be a problem?

Only using CDR25 (orange and dashed blue lines) does carbon dioxide levels return to anything close to the RCP2.6 low emissions scenario (green dashed line), but not for at least two centuries.

The FSEIS did not consider the IEA's global 450ppm low emissions scenario, which is in line with global efforts to limit carbon emissions.

Lower emission scenarios show significant advantages in terms of minimizing impacts on AW but do not eliminate these impacts altogether.

The low emission scenario would require carbon emissions by global human society to decrease by 75 percent during this century.

Recent projections show that for even the lowest emissions scenarios, thermal expansion of ocean waters21 and the melting of small mountain glaciers22 will result in 11 inches of sea level rise by 2100, even without any contribution from the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

The numbers here relate to the IPCC's lowest emissions scenario, RCP2.6, which was specifically designed to show how warming can be limited to two degrees.

best estimate for it's lowest emissions scenario and 4.0 C... best estimate for it's highest emissions scenario

The key difference from figure A is that much lower population and economic growth rates are assumed in this lower emissions scenario.

(C, E, G, I) Lower emissions scenario (B1).

The actual GHG radiative forcing in 2011 was approximately 2.8 W / m2, so to this point, we're actually closer to the IPCC FAR's lower emissions scenarios.

Compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries, it highlights detectable scientific evidence of impacts on marine life, from microorganisms to mammals, which are likely to increase significantly even under a low emissions scenario.

The nutrition effect noted by Wieder will be small under a low emissions scenario and I will assume that it is zero for these purposes.

«Our modeling shows that a high emissions scenario could reduce global fishing revenue by an average of 10 percent, while a low emissions scenario could reduce revenues by 7 percent,» said study co-author Rashid Sumaila, a professor at UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Liu Institute for Global Studies.

Sea level rise at my place predicted by «coastadapt «with a low emissions scenario.

As an aside — how realistic is a low emissions scenario?

The shading indicates a measure of uncertainty about future sea level for two different scenarios — a low emissions scenario where carbon emissions are rapidly cut (blue RCP 2.6) and a high emissions scenario with no carbon cuts (red RCP 8.5).

Projections from process - based models of global mean sea level (GMSL) rise relative to 1986 — 2005 as a function of time for two scenarios — RCP2.6, a low emissions scenario, and RCP 8.5, a high emissions scenario.

Large reductions in global emissions of heat - trapping gases, similar to the lower emissions scenario (B1) analyzed in this assessment, would reduce the risks of some of the damaging impacts of climate change.

By the end of this century, a roughly 3 °F to 5 °F rise is projected under a lower emissions scenario, which would require substantial reductions in emissions (referred to as the «B1 scenario»), and a 5 °F to 10 °F rise for a higher emissions scenario assuming continued increases in emissions, predominantly from fossil fuel combustion (referred to as the «A2 scenario»).

Global temperatures were around 2 °C warmer - this is the amount of warming expected for some of the IPCC's lower emission scenarios.

«By the end of this century, global sea level is expected to rise by more than 2 feet in a low emissions scenario or nearly 3.5 feet in a higher emissions scenario.

Under a low emission scenario, the number of extremes will stabilise by 2040, whereas under a high emission scenario, the land area affected by extremes will increase by one per cent a year after 2040.

«Even for a low emission scenario, the best estimate is about one meter.»

Then, as the mitigation efforts begin to take effect in the lower emissions scenarios, such as 1.5 C (green line) and 2C (pink), melt rates begin to slow.