Sentences with phrase «planetary warming»

Scientists and environmentalists worry the red team exercises could give undue influence to the small minority of climate scientists who question whether humans are the dominant cause of planetary warming over the last century.

Every engineered cool - down that is carried out by the climate engineers comes at the cost of an even worse overall planetary warming.

Can we afford to stabilize planetary warming below two degrees C?

Despite national and international efforts to reduce anthropogenic emissions, growing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide will yield planetary warming and associated impacts for the foreseeable future.

That's a huge boon to humanity, because the more carbon dioxide a landscape can store, the less will be left as a greenhouse gas that drives planetary warming.

Net radiant flux is planetary warming upward by convention.

It suggests that carbon dioxide is not the primary driver of planetary warming events, as other factors now have stronger weight on the final result.

As I have reported before, planetary warming seems to be a factor already in limiting supply and therefore raising prices, and many groups expect the challenge to grow.

And while the rate of planetary warming has slowed in the past 16 years, it hasn't stopped.

A fresh analysis of thousands of temperature measurements from deep - diving Argo ocean probes shows (yet again) that Earth is experiencing «unabated planetary warming» when you factor in the vast amount of greenhouse - trapped heat that ends up in the sea.

Trump's decision represents a new obstacle to the Paris agreement's goal of keeping planetary warming by 2100 below the 2 °C ceiling that many consider safe.

The Paris accord, agreed by nearly 200 countries in 2015, seeks to limit planetary warming by curbing global emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists believe drive global warming.

Remember, more than 90 percent of human induced planetary warming goes into the oceans, while only 2 percent goes into the atmosphere, so small changes in ocean uptake can have huge impact on surface temperatures.

That stubborn error in the satellite data is about six times larger than what is scientifically possible, and several times larger than the effect scientists are trying to see, namely planetary warming caused by continued massive emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The agreement endeavors to limit planetary warming by «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C (3.8 °F) above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).»

He was also instrumental in convincing Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord - a global pact to stem planetary warming through emissions cuts.

In 2012, however, Muller concluded that «humans are almost entirely the cause» of recent planetary warming.

Consider the quasi-official global goal (codified, for example, in the Copenhagen Accord) to hold total planetary warming to 2 °C (Earth surface average) above pre-industrial levels.

This sacred cow turns out to be as fanciful as planetary warming hidden in the deepest ocean, or the infamous hockey stick of Michael Mann's hidden data and secret computer codes.

Projections for the way in which our planet will be affected by the current trend of rapid planetary warming are dire.

Planetary warming between 3 °C and 5 °C could trigger what scientists term «tipping points» such as the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and subsequent global sea - level rise, and the dieback of the Amazon rainforest.

It might make it impossible to stabilize planetary warming below dangerous levels,» he says.

but even if the current tooo - short - to - call cooling trend reverses, and it is proved that co2 MIGHT have some limited effect on planetary warming, then the question is, how much warming?

Global carbon emissions are actually on the decline, renewable energy is dramatically on the rise, and we achieved a monumental international agreement in Paris last December that promises to help steer us onto a path that just may avert dangerous 2C planetary warming.

«Exxon's «Lights Across America» website advertisement states that natural gas is «helping dramatically reduce America's emissions» even though natural gas is a fossil fuel causing widespread planetary warming and harm to coastal cities like San Francisco and the use of natural gas competes with wind and solar, which have no greenhouse gas emissions.»

Variations in how the Earth is tilted and its orbit around the sun make for a pattern of planetary warming phases followed by cooling phases across the millennia.

Even so, climate scientists stress Lovelock's backtracking doesn't negate the reality of climate change, and in fact, his past predictions highlight some overall misunderstanding about planetary warming.

So scientists have been trying to understand why planetary warming has not melted Antarctic sea ice like it has in the Arctic.

Evidently distraught, he believes that a few degrees of potential planetary warming «is a question literally of life or death.»

The amount of planetary warming for a doubling of CO2 is called the climate sensitivity, which scientists have estimated is between 2 ° and 4.5 °C.

We certainly will see increased planetary warming.

No more than one trillion metric tons of carbon could be burned and the resulting gases released into the atmosphere, the panel found, if planetary warming is to be kept below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above the level of preindustrial times.

Moreover, the substantial planetary warming of the last three decades (inconvenient to the filmmaker's message) was mysteriously lopped off the end of this chart!

The paradox is this, every single engineered cool - down carried out by the geoengineers comes at the cost of an even worse overall planetary warming.

The study, «Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006,» was published today in Nature Climate Change.

Keeping planetary warming below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) would, it was thought, avoid such perils as catastrophic sea - level rise and searing droughts.

«There is some evidence that Hurricane Harvey was enhanced by human induced planetary warming (climate change).

This relatively modest release of CO ₂ might have contributed to long - term planetary warming.

Two months after «climategate» cast doubt on some of the science behind global warming, new questions are being raised about the reliability of a key temperature database, used by the United Nations and climate change scientists as proof of recent planetary warming.

If action is delayed, total investment costs will rise, the chances of stranded assets will increase and costly negative emission technologies will be needed to limit planetary warming.»

«The Paris pledges alone won't keep planetary warming by 2100 below the 2 °C ceiling that many consider safe.»

By abandoning the world's chief effort to slow the tide of planetary warming, Trump was fulfilling a top campaign pledge.