Sentences with phrase «possible human greenhouse gas emissions»

This suggests that IPCC projections of future global warming, which are based on various possible human greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, are reliable.

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

One will represent conditions and «possible weather» in the winter 2014, and the second will represent the weather in a «world that might have been» if human behaviour had not changed the composition of the atmosphere through greenhouse gas emissions.

In the 1980's, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity became a worldwide concern and are a possible cause of climatic changes.

It is not the first such optimistic study: researchers have lately argued that the 2 °C target set in Paris is possible, if humans start reducing greenhouse gas emissions towards zero, and do so within 40 years.

Beginning in the late 1960s, computer simulations indicated possible changes in temperature and precipitation that could occur due to human - induced emission of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

They also discovered that such a huge shift in the jet stream would not have been possible without anthropogenic, or human - caused, greenhouse gas emissions.

On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate change.

We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80 % by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made human progress over the last 10,000 years possible.