Sentences with phrase «of unabated climate change»

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (2006) estimates that the international costs of unabated climate change is already at least five percent of global per capita GDP and will continue at this rate into the future, with estimates rising to 20 percent of GDP or more when accounting for a wider range of impacts.

The study concludes SRM geoengineering is unlikely to negatively impact agricultural food productivity, especially since it compensates part of the damaging effects of unabated climate change to this food production.

Not exact matches

«Unabated climate change will probably further weaken summer circulation patterns which could thus aggravate the risk of heat waves,» says co-author Jascha Lehmann «Remarkably, climate simulations for the next decades, the CMIP5, show the same link that we found in observations.

But they believe that the UK «is bucking these positive trends» and they call on the government to phase out unabated use of coal by 2023 to «improve air quality, protect the health of our population, and reclaim the UK's leadership position in tackling climate change.»

The WMO also says long - term signs of climate change, such as growing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification, continue unabated.

But centuries of rising temperatures and seas lie ahead if the untrammeled burning of fossil fuels and deforestation continue unabated, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The U.N. report gets two things right: 1) there is a risk of serious damages from climate change if left unabated for a century and 2) poor countries in the low latitudes are likely to bear the greatest share of that risk.

As the tit - for - tat attacks from the tail ends of the spectrum on climate change continue unabated, what was once presumed influence on the part of these scientists will likely become real influence on public opinion and political decision - making, and these scientists will be partly responsible.

It's not even about the Amazon specifically, but rather the entire world, titled «Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change», but it's this study that led to headlines, shortly before the big UN climate conference in Copenhagen that same year, of how unabated climate change could wipe out most of the world's largest remaining rainforest.

For example, if unabated climate change results in a famine in Kenya, or the Maldives is lost to rising sea levels, the loss of life and culture won't have much impact on the global economy, but I think we can all agree that there is a significant non-economic loss associated with these types of events.

The number of days above 95 °F (35 °C) will rise dramatically in many parts of the United States if climate change continues unabated

Ocean warming: «Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records» «Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus» «A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change» «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006»

The paper says a warming of 5ºC − likely to happen in the next century if climate change goes on unabated − would put nearly all terrestrial natural ecosystems at risk of severe change.

To illustrate that the above map of North Africa serves to show a dramatic trend under continued (unabated) climate change — but that perhaps we shouldn't focus too much on the numbers in it.

To suggest that because near surface temperatures have flattened at or near the highest on record requires «abandoning» a sinking ship is to be grossly underinformed about the full scope and scale of the multiple changes going on and the confidence that anthropogenic climate continues unabated as it will so long as humans continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations.

In the absence of a regulatory framework and global standards of conservation tied to climate change value of blue carbon, will allow the gap to continue with unabated transformation, conversion and release of carbon from blue carbon zones.

«Assessing recent warming using instrumentally homogeneous sea surface temperature records» «Tracking ocean heat uptake during the surface warming hiatus» «A review of global ocean temperature observations: Implications for ocean heat content estimates and climate change» «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006»

As the slightest of albedo changes can have quite a temperature impact, how do all these agricultural changes — either under unabated climate change or in a stratospheric SRM world — in turn affect the atmosphere?

from Mann et al: Esoteric and academic arguments about the response of the atmosphere to a doubling of CO2 may be interesting for those steeped in the peer - reviewed literature, but for the public and policy makers the important and unfortunate fact is that climate change is continuing unabated.

Esoteric and academic arguments about the response of the atmosphere to a doubling of CO2 may be interesting for those steeped in the peer - reviewed literature, but for the public and policy makers the important and unfortunate fact is that climate change is continuing unabated.

«Unabated climate change will make it much harder to eradicate poverty and beyond a certain threshold will make it impossible,» said John Ashton of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office.

Though the EPA is correct, thought the details I am unsure, It is very likely that if in the future that is Emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise unabated, and climate changes effects more dramatic, I would not put it past a nation like America taking unilatreal action and even sucombing to using geo - engineering projects.

The record 2014 temperatures underscore the fact that global warming and associated climate changes continue unabated as we continue to raise the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

In addition to concealing the known risks, Exxon and Suncor... directed, participated in, and benefited from efforts to misleadingly cast doubt about the causes and consequences of climate change, including: (1) making affirmative and misleading statements suggesting that continued and unabated fossil fuel use was safe (in spite of internal knowledge to the contrary); and (2) attacking climate science and scientists that tried to report truthfully about the dangers of climate change.

The authors recognize that there «remains a range of estimates on the magnitude and regional expression of future change» but state with certainty that «[f] urther climate change is inevitable» and «if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated, future changes will substantially exceed those that have occurred so far.»

The Statement also highlighted that long - term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue «unabated», with Arctic sea ice coverage remaining below average and the previously stable Antarctic sea ice extent at or near a record low.

In fact, if climate change continues unabated, people in most regions will face the risk of either flooding or droughts.

The plaintiffs also employ wild leaps of logic divorced from reality: «By hiding what they knew about, and affirmatively misrepresenting the dangers of unabated fossil fuel use, the Defendants protected fossil fuel demand, and obstructed the changes needed to prevent or at least minimize the impacts of climate change.»

Additionally, the researchers» detailed field data make clear that the land sinking around Washington is not primarily driven by human influence, such as groundwater withdrawals, but instead is a long - term geological process that will continue unabated for tens of thousands of years, independent from human land use or climate change.

[10] While many companies appear to believe that climate targets will not be met, we are unaware of any company (save Statoil) that endeavors to incorporate the physical and economic impacts of largely unabated climate change on the macroeconomic forecasts that drive their modeling, though that flows, ipso facto, from the suggestion that the world is likely to use far more fossil fuels than could safely be combusted whilst still achieving those targets.

Further climate change is inevitable; if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated, future changes will substantially exceed those that have occurred so far.