Sentences with phrase «of impact on global temperature»

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«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

If large amounts of undecayed matter were to defrost, decompose and release methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the impact on global temperatures would most likely be enormous.

So reducing emissions of it would have a nearly immediate impact on global temperatures.

«Rises in global average temperatures of this magnitude will have profound impacts on the world and the economies of many countries if we don't urgently start to curb our emissions.

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

A global team of scientists, led by those at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, used two different simulation methods and one statistical method to predict the impact of rising temperatures on global wheat production, and all came to similar estimates.

«It's the first time that a scientific study compared different methods of estimating temperature impacts on global crop production.

Scientists have discovered that rising ocean temperatures slow the development of baby fish around the equator, raising concerns about the impact of global warming on fish and fisheries in the tropics.

By investigating the concrete implications of INDCs for the low - carbon transformation by and beyond 2030, from energy systems, buildings to transport and industry, it complements the upcoming cutting - edge assessments by UNFCCC and UNEP of the impact of INDCs on global emissions and the global temperature goal.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that global warming has any impact on the temperature of the earth's interior — the earth's core has that well under control.

But awareness of carbon dioxide's impact on global temperatures had been seeping through Exxon, from its rank - and - file engineers to its board of directors.

Early on in the temperature record, the red and blue lines diverge because natural factors meant the full impact of greenhouse gases on temperatures wasn't being felt, but in recent years, the two lines match closely, showing how much greenhouse gases are dominating global temperatures.

The study, published in the June 30 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, was based on an average global temperature increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered a relatively conservative estimate and the limit needed to avert catastrophic impacts.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by 2050.

There is a clear impact on global temperature, too, though the mechanisms are complex: heat released from the oceans; increases in water vapor, which enhance the greenhouse effect, and redistributions of clouds.

We use Earth's measured energy imbalance, paleoclimate data, and simple representations of the global carbon cycle and temperature to define emission reductions needed to stabilize climate and avoid potentially disastrous impacts on today's young people, future generations, and nature.

And of course — «all other things are not equal», as so many other climate effects also have their impact on the global mean surface temperature.

While much of the attention at Paris is focused on reducing emissions in a bid to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius by the end of the century, many climate impacts will continue to increase — including rising sea level and more extreme weather events — even if greenhouse emissions cease, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This doesn't address longer causal connections, but if the net impact of temperature on CO2 can be shown to be neutral or in the negative direction over then long term, than cointegration probably means that CO2 is causing global warming.

The link between global temperature and rate of sea level change provides a brilliant opportunity for cross-validation of these two parameters over the last several millenia (one might add - in the relationship between atmospheric [CO2] and Earth temperature in the period before any significant human impact on [CO2]-RRB-.

The amount of energy difference is huge and I don't think that many people would argue that they don't have a significant impact on the global temperature in the short run.

However, the tracking between Scenarios and actual temperatures is best for Scenario C. Which is to suggest: 1) the emissions have virtually no impact at this time on global temperatures, or 2) all of the impact of emissions since 2000 has been offset by natural processes that have not been modelled.

There are other factors affecting global temperature besides greenhouse gases, some of which have a profound impact on short - term variations.

If current trends continue, the projected increase in global temperature by the end of the twenty?first century will result in large impacts on humans and other species.

Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidGlobal climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidglobal mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidglobal and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).

However, the impact on global (as opposed to local) temperatures of even large variations in the overturning is very small.

Shows that a suite of modeled and derived measures (produced from daily maximum — minimum temperatures) linking plant development (phenology) with its basic climatic drivers provide a reliable and spatially extensive method for monitoring general impacts of global warming on the start of the growing season

Even EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy admitted the fact when she told Congress that EPA can not measure the impact of the proposed Clean Power Plan on global temperatures, because it would likely be incredibly small.

Most studies about the impact of solar variations on global temperatures include multiyear to multidecadal time lags.

People simply fail to look at the most basic of radiative physics in assessing the impact of atmospheric CO2 on global surface temperature.

Numerical values of tonnes of CO2 equivalent or enough to power X homes are commonly used to «justifiy» government action, with no mention of the potential impact on averting a rise in global temperatures in quantitative terms.

The estimated range of the impact of Mount Pinatubo on Global Temperatures varies from 0.2 to 0.5 deg C, depending on the study, so we'll use approximately 0.35 deg C to account for its effect.

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And second, direct further use of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI)-- but in the opposite hemisphere, so as to partially stabilise impacts on precipitation (while possibly further forcing down global temperature).

the impact on global economic growth begins to mount over time and even conservative estimates put the costs at up to 3 percent of global GDP annually if the Earth's temperature were to rise 2 - 3 degrees C, which many scientists believe could begin to happen as early as mid-century?

As the real science dictates, by the end of the next 20 years the yearly CO2 reduction of 76 million plus tonnes will have zero impact on global temperatures.

The DICE model attempts to quantify how the atmospheric concentration of CO2 negatively affects economic output through its impact on global average surface temperature.

He found that «the ultimate impact on projected global temperature rise would be a reduction or a «savings» of approximately 0.08 degrees Centigrade by the year 2050 and 0.17 degrees Centigrade by the year 2100»; results that would be negligible.

Regardless of one's opinions on the impact of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on global temperatures the economic sacrifices will generate a negligible impact on global temperatures.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo is assumed to have no impact on global temperature due to the thermal mass involved and distance from the ocean.

In order to understand the impact of incomplete coverage on a global temperature estimate, we need to know how temperatures have varied over different regions of the globe.

The effect of the strong 2015 - 16 El Nino on global temperature has declined, with the impact on global temperature lagging the El Nino by a few months, as usual.

Regardless of one's opinions on the degree to which climate change is occurring, there is compelling evidence that policies like those resulting from the Paris agreement will have little impact on global temperatures.

It was therefore easily rebutted when I wrote your «totally unsuitable» is contradicted by three papers: Arrhenius's 1896 paper proposing a logarithmic dependence of surface temperature on CO2, Hansen et al's 1985 paper pointing out that the time needed to warm the oceanic mixed layer would delay the impact of global warming, and Hofmann et al's 2009 paper modeling the dependence of CO2 on time as a raised exponential.

This reveals an ignorance of the literature, otherwise you'd know that the extent of aerosol cooling is estimated from the measured aerosol optical depth due to volcanic eruptions and their consequent impact on global temperature, and estimates of aerosol emissions during the 20th century.

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I am not at all surprised to find climate skeptics preferring Mike's description over mine, given that mine tries to fit the current understanding of the impact of rising CO2 on temperature to the data while Mike's uses gross overfitting to show that one does not need CO2 to explain recent global warming.