Sentences with phrase «most dangerous climate»

If we are to see different headlines from the Global Carbon Project in the coming years and avoid the most dangerous climate impacts, countries have to peak their emissions as soon as possible, and keep emissions levels moving steadily downward.

These solutions can help avoid the most dangerous climate changes and increase the resilience of societies and ecosystems to those climate changes that can not be avoided.

The recent UNEP and World Bank reports have been unequivocal: the window to stabilize temperature increase below 2 ° C, and thus avoid the most dangerous climate impacts, is closing rapidly.

Not exact matches

Scientists have shown that most existing fossil fuel reserves can not be burned without causing dangerous climate change.

«With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015, the world took a decisive step toward avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change,» the page used to read.

Regardless of such rallies, this remains the most dangerous of all Climates we identify, and it should be approached accordingly.

«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

That is well short of the 25 to 40 per cent cuts that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says are required from developed nations to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate Climate Change says are required from developed nations to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate climate change.

Global spending to combat climate change fell last year and remains far below the level needed to prevent its most dangerous effects, a report by the Climate Policy Initiative said on Tclimate change fell last year and remains far below the level needed to prevent its most dangerous effects, a report by the Climate Policy Initiative said on TClimate Policy Initiative said on Tuesday.

Pope Francis is to make history this week with a call for international cooperation to avert dangerous global warming — the Vatican's most powerful statement yet on the environment and climate change.

I'd also like to ask them, «Are most things about climate change more dangerous or more benign than previously thought?»

To avoid the most dangerous consequences of anthropogenic climate change, the Paris Agreement provides a clear and agreed climate mitigation target of stabilizing global surface warming to under 2.0 °C above preindustrial, and preferably closer to 1.5 °C.

While Eggsy undergoes the ultra-competitive training program (with only one recruit earning a spot as a Kingsman), Harry investigates a potential threat involving a tech - genius billionaire named Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) who wants to save the Earth from the dangerous effects of climate change by wiping out most of humanity.

It's painfully ironic, particularly for those of who are American citizens, given that right now the single most obstructive, denialist, dangerous government on the planet in regard to climate change is in fact ours.

To stand the best chance of keeping the planetary warming below an internationally agreed target of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change, the panel found, only about 1 trillion tons of carbon can be burned and the resulting gas spewed into the atmosphere.

The best way forward, he said, is for the climate convention and whatever addenda emerge in coming years remain focused on the core issue enshrined in 1992 — the need to avoid dangerous human - driven disruption of the climate system and help nations most exposed to risks.

It remains to be seen whether the series draws a substantial and sustained audience, but the Showtime team, at least in episode one, deserves plaudits for taking a compellingly fresh approach to showing the importance of climate hazards to human affairs, the role of greenhouse gases in raising the odds of some costly and dangerous outcomes and — perhaps most important — revealing the roots of the polarizing divisions in society over this issue.

«The most «dangerous» technological idea that could mean that even the climate change won't be enough to establish the world government and cripple the world's economy: Artificial volcanos.»

But right now the priority is to deal with dangerous climate change, so we want high growth of renewable energy as the most obvious answer.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Joe Romm at Climate Progress made a great point yesterday in highlighting one of the most dangerous myths of climate change: that it is reveClimate Progress made a great point yesterday in highlighting one of the most dangerous myths of climate change: that it is reveclimate change: that it is reversible.

The issue is that we actually need China to do more than its fair share if we're to keep warming from becoming too dangerous (I never know how to phrase this... to avoid run - away climate change is really what I'm most scared about but I don't want to minimise the devastating impacts that will happen before that too).

It's strange and alarming that they chose to highlight the most dangerous form of climate intervention (albedo hacking) instead of asking for a big push on carbon capture, which addresses the root cause of the problem and moreover is the key backstop technology for staying under 2 °C in a way that doesn't put the Earth in a perilous state.

Swift notes in a blog that the scientists» statement follows a study published earlier this year in the journal Nature, which shows that most fossil fuels need to stay in the ground to avoid dangerous climate change.

There are already several other lawsuits worldwide that are attempting to hold fossil fuel companies, including Shell, accountable for their contributions to dangerous climate change, but most are focused on financial compensation.

Climate change and air pollution are two of the most dangerous and grievous problems of our time.

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

Dr. S. Fred Singer, one of the world's earliest and most credible critics of the theory that global warming is man - made and dangerous, will be recognized with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Climate Science at an international conference on global warming taking place July 7 — 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The authors look closely at the claim of a «scientific consensus» that most of the climate change that occurred in the past 50 years was due to human activity and that future climate change will be dangerous.

«I consider environmentalism and its currently strongest version — climate alarmism — to be, at the beginning of the 21st century, the most effective and, therefore, the most dangerous vehicle for advocating, drafting and implementing large scale government intervention and for an unprecedented suppression of human freedom,» he added.

«Most people know that climate change is a dangerous global problem, and that it's caused by pumping carbon into the atmosphere.

But a new draft study being published this week by a team of 17 leading international climate scientists warns that even 2 degrees of warming is «highly dangerous» and could cause sea level rise of «at least several meters» this century, leaving most of the world's coastal cities uninhabitable.

Lord Nicholas Stern, a professor at the London School of Economics and the author of an influential earlier study, said the new IPCC report was the «most important assessment of climate change ever prepared» and that it made plain that «further delays in tackling climate change would be dangerous and profoundly irrational».

The Keystone XL pipeline proposal was dealt yet another blow this week when the world's most influential newspaper decried the project as dangerous and not in keeping with U.S. President Barack Obama's commitment to doing whatever he can to limit the impacts of climate change.

«[The research] demonstrates that proposed technological solutions, like CDR, to the problems of global warming and ocean acidification are no substitute for reducing carbon emissions, which remains the safest and most reliable path for avoiding dangerous climate change.»

If you concede that climate skeptics have not proven in peer - reviewed journals that human - induced warming is not a very serious threat to human health and ecological systems, given that human - induced warming could create catastrophic warming the longer the human community waits to respond to reduce the threat of climate change and the more difficult it will be to prevent dangerous warming, do you agree that those nations most responsible for rising atmospheric ghg concentrations have a duty to demonstrate that their ghg emissions are safe?

Limiting emissions to one trillion tonnes means that global warming would most likely warming be limited to 2 degrees Celsius, the generally agreed - to level above which climate change would become dangerous.

It can be most useful to think about climate change through a risk management lens — the more greenhouse gases that we emit, the greater the risks for dangerous impacts to occur.

Turning to renewables will also dramatically cut carbon emissions, moving us toward climate stability and thus avoiding the most dangerous effects of climate change.

Research shows that a large portion of the world's fossil fuel reserves will have to be left in the ground if we are to avert the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

First, physical risk: in order to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, scientists have shown that we must limit global warming to 2C, a target now adopted unanimously by governments through the landmark Paris Agreement on climate.

Perhaps an even better starting point before over-representing any climate crisis and spending many billions of dollars more to solve it will be to decide which of two opposite «factual presentations» deemed to be most dangerous should be exaggerated.

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will «lose for ever» the chance to avoid dangerous climate change The world is likely to build so many fossil - fuelled power stations, energy - guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change will be «lost for ever», according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.

Titled «Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming,» it suggests that probably the most widely repeated claim in the global warming debate is that 97 percent of scientists agree that climate change is man - made and dangerous.

In fact, the sceptics» repudiation of climate science is not the only form of denial that has prevented a response proportionate to the problem, nor the most dangerous.

And so, those most responsible for climate change have failed under the Cancun agreements to assume responsibility to prevent dangerous climate change - extending a twenty year record of failure in so doing.

To many others, Cancun was another tragic lost opportunity for the international community to prevent dangerous climate change, as well as, the most recent in a series of moral failures of those most responsible for climate change to commit to steps necessary to protect those who are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest impacts.

During the Copenhagen conference representatives from poor vulnerable nations begged developed countries to: (a) commit to reduce GHG emissions to levels necessary to prevent dangerous climate change; and (b) to fund adaptation programs in developing countries that are necessary to protect the most vulnerable from climate change impacts that could be avoided or compensate for the damages that could not be avoided.

Since RGGI went into effect, the nine states have cut carbon pollution by 51 percent, making important progress toward the 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say we must reach by 2050 to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change.

As we have seen above, the commitments made according to the Copenhagen Accord and Cancun agreements that have been ratified by the Cancun agreements leave at the very minimum a 5Gt gap between emissions levels that will be achieved if there is full compliance with the voluntary emissions reductions and what is necessary to prevent 2 °C rise, a warming amount that most scientists believe could cause very dangerous climate change.