Sentences with phrase «on limiting warming»

«As you know, before the meeting in Paris last year, COP21, governments were focused on limiting warming to 2C.

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The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.

I happen to love the style enough for those colder months that its limited warm - weather wearability (especially as a cold baby who lives on the East Coast and sometimes Midwest) doesn't bother me as much as I would have expected before trying it on.

Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are focusing mainly on reducing carbon dioxide output from industry in order to limit global warming, rather than on diet.

It outlines new reporting requirements for French asset managers on their contribution to national and international efforts to limit global warming.

If the NDP can continue to limit their missteps, focus on implementing their popular platform, and remember why Albertans endorsed Ms. Notley's charismatic leadership, they will enjoy a warm welcome on the summer political barbecue and parade circuit.

Most of the current discussion focuses on what can be done to reduce the rate of exhaustion of limited resources, the polluting of air, water, and soil, and the rate of global warming.

I was focused on the menu — divided into five categories («Snackles,» a goofy term that London made up, «Cold / Cool,» «Warm / Hot,» «Limited Availability,» and «Sides»)-- when I noticed a blur out of the corner of my eye.

Increasing appetite for meat and population growth in developing countries mean global meat consumption is on track to increase 75 % by 2050, which would make it virtually impossible to keep global warming below the internationally - agreed limit of 2C.

Depending on the circumstances, contact with babies is limited to short periods of being held, and sitting beside the incubator (the see - through box that keeps babies warm and surrounded by clean, humid air).

understand how their children feel and respond to them; warm and nurturing; communicative with their children; democratic; sets standards, monitors limits; places demands and expectations on the child; punishment is measured, consistent, and explained to the child; encourages independence but places controls on the child's actions

Up until he cast his vote, the congressman had been the GOP darling of the environmental advocacy world — proof that limits on global warming can be bipartisan.

«The Secretary of State knows that the coverage of the Warm Front scheme is limited, but does he accept that for most homes investing in energy efficiency saves money on fuel bills?

Meanwhile, by the end of this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are expected to complete a head - to - toe examination of how the office works and whether it keeps abreast with current science, and later this year NASA is holding a major workshop that could lead to a redefinition of special regions on Mars, the warm and wet areas that are off - limits for all but the most sterile of spacecraft.

Kathrin Rousk concludes, «Warming will lead to increased N2 fixation rates in mosses, while the consequences of further shrub expansion will depend on the dominant shrub invading: the expansion of willow will likely limit the N input via N2 fixation, whereas a predominance of birch shrubs will increase N2 fixation and with that, N supply to the ecosystem.»

Earlier this year, the US House of Representatives select committee on energy independence and global warming received a number of letters opposing the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would set limits on the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

Even die - hard Alaskan antienvironmentalists have begun to warm up to the idea of imposing limits on greenhouse - gas emissions, according to The Wall Street Journal, because homes on the coast there are already beginning to slip into rising seas.

OSLO (Reuters)- World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high - polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming, a draft U.N. study to be approved this week shows.

That warmth ultimately limits the reforming of sea ice and also has a warming influence on nearby land.

Two new studies aim to quantify limits on the amount of greenhouse emissions necessary to avoid dangerous global warming

Prior to this study, «the understanding of permafrost feedbacks to climate change had been limited by a lack of data examining warming effects on both vegetation and permafrost carbon simultaneously,» said Dr. Natali.

This 2 - degree [Celsius, or 3.6 - degree Fahrenheit] change that everybody talks about [as a limit on warming], which is probably unattainable, has some serious ramifications for oceans.

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

Building on a previous limited study of climate warming on three Arctic lakes (Science, 21 October 1994, 416), ecologist John Smol of Queens University, Kingston, Canada, and colleagues extracted sediment cores from 46 lakes in Canada, Finland, Norway, and Russia.

The scientists say these findings reinforce the need for assessing the risk of a wide - scale collapse of reef ecosystems, especially if global action on climate change fails to limit warming to 1.5?

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

The world is getting further off track in limiting global warming with setbacks in Japan and Australia outweighing positive signals from the United States and China, a study showed on Wednesday.

«The Paris Climate Agreement aims to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to 1.5 oC.

Only two of the 11 models used to project future warming in the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considered the effects of limited nitrogen on plant growth; none considered phosphorus, although one paper from 2014 subsequently pointed out this omission.

Lead author, Dr Michael Singer from School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Cardiff University, said: «In drylands, convective (or short, intense) rainfall controls water supply, flood risk and soil moisture but we have had little information on how atmospheric warming will affect the characteristics of such rainstorms, given the limited moisture in these areas.»

Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200 nations for limiting global warming, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday.

On the other hand, she says, «In laboratory studies, pH variability often limited the effects of ocean acidification, but the effects of temperature variability on responses to warming were equivocal.&raquOn the other hand, she says, «In laboratory studies, pH variability often limited the effects of ocean acidification, but the effects of temperature variability on responses to warming were equivocal.&raquon responses to warming were equivocal.»

«There seems to be a limit on how strong these ancient storms might be, but the number getting close to the limit appears to be larger during warmer periods,» Korty explains.

«We can't give up» on emissions cuts, says Denman, although it's «probably already too late» to limit warming to 2 ˚C.

The microwave background marks the limit of the observable universe, nearly 14 billion light - years away, and Rudnick believes that the void, which is 6 billion to 10 billion light - years away, imprinted its form on the microwave background by the simple virtue of being empty: Under the influence of dark energy and gravity, space containing clusters of galaxies compresses microwaves to a shorter, warmer part of the spectrum, while space that is empty on this scale stretches and cools microwaves.

The court's 5 - 4 ruling said the Bush administration did not adequately assess the threats from global warming when it rejected a petition from environmental groups and 12 states that sought to force federal greenhouse gas limits on motor vehicles.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melOn its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melon how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

«He let the moment go by without making any change in his dogged refusal to put real limits on America's global warming pollution,» says David Doniger, climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York - based environmental group.

Prominent scientists say researchers and policy makers need to focus more on adapting to warming and on controversial geoengineering techniques to limit it

The 2 °C limit was adopted by the European Union in 2009 and has since become the benchmark for warming for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the UN.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

Climate scenarios which keep global warming within Paris Agreement limits rely on large - scale application... read more

Leading doctors are backing legal action against UK government ministers on the grounds that they have not fulfilled their commitments to cutting carbon emissions in line with the Climate Change Act of 2008 and the Paris Agreement objective of limiting warming to 1.5?

Countries have agreed on a goal of limiting warming to under 2 °C (4 °F) from pre-industrial times by the end of the century.

The most widely accepted threshold is two degrees of warming relative to pre-industrial times — this is the limit recommended by the UK's Committee on Climate Change, for example.

To limit warming to 1.5 degrees, CO2 emissions need to fall, on average, by 20 % for every tenth of a degree of warming.

Human - induced warming is already close to 1 degree, so to limit warming to 2 degrees, CO2 emissions need to fall, on average, by 10 % of today's emission rate for every tenth of a degree of warming from now on.

But on a planet with a warming climate, these same adaptations could spell the bird's doom: The ptarmigan's range is severely limited by its sole dependence on alpine habitat, which is shrinking as hotter temperatures sneak up the mountainsides, threatening to push the treeline — and the ptarmigan — to ever - higher elevations, until there's no more room to rise.

The question of how to limit warming to 1.5 C has been gaining a lot of media attention, especially its almost guaranteed reliance on «negative emissions» technologies.