Sentences with phrase «much warming in the pipeline»

That could easily be 50 %, which means that even if atmospheric CO2 levels off today, there's as much warming in the pipeline as we've already seen.

Not exact matches

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

This is much less than the current «best estimate» of about 3 deg.C, and would imply that there is * not * any unfelt warming «still in the pipeline» from greenhouse gases we've already emitted.

The remaining energy imbalance helps us assess how much additional warming is still «in the pipeline».

If we knew ocean heat uptake as well as we know atmospheric temperature change, then we could pin down fairly well the radiative imbalance at the top of the atmosphere, which would give us a fair indication of how much warming is «in the pipeline» given current greenhouse gas concentrations.

This imbalance is really an important quantity — estimates of how much warming is in the «pipeline», the size of the aerosol cooling effect etc. all depend on knowing what this number is.

Given an actual imbalance, you can estimate how much further the sea surface will need to warm to remove it — this is the warming «in the pipeline».

Granted it's impractical, but it gives us some feel for what we've done so far, how fast nature takes up CO2, how much warming is in the pipeline.

We don't have much room for error, and we don't know for sure how much warming remains «in the pipeline» from CO2 already emitted.

The remaining energy imbalance helps us assess how much additional warming is still «in the pipeline».

First, that the impact of adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere will be much smaller than most estimates; second, that almost all of the warming due to the greenhouse gases we've put in the atmosphere so far has already been felt, so there's almost no warming «in the pipeline» due to greenhouse gases already in the air.