The two will unveil legislation Wednesday designed to radically reduce the production of fossil fuels, which they say is necessary to
prevent dangerous levels of global warming.
What, using UN parlance, does an equitable solution to
prevent dangerous levels of global warming look like on a country - by - country level?
They tend to believe that as the planet warms, low - level cloud cover will increase, thus increasing planetary albedo (overall reflectiveness of the Earth), offsetting the increased greenhouse effect and
preventing a dangerous level of global warming from occurring.
It's even got a great graph showing how curbing global emissions affects the odds of
preventing dangerous levels of global warming (Figure 14 - 3 if you're still following along).
Not exact matches
Given the increased
levels of certainty regarding human - induced
global warming (from 90 to 95 %), more robust projections on sea -
level rise and data on melting
of ice sheets, and the «carbon budget» for staying below the 2 °C target, the WGI conclusions together with other AR5 component reports are likely to put more pressure on the UNFCCC parties to deliver by 2015 an ambitious agreement that is capable
of preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting
warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to
prevent very
dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep
warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional
warming, if the international community seeks to limit
warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that
global emissions do not exceed the number
of tons
of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to
levels that will cause
warming of 2 degrees C.
Indeed, the market conditions and policies necessary to make the tar sands a cost - effective source
of energy will almost certainly result in
dangerous levels of global warming that will exceed two degrees Celsius, the internationally agreed upon limit that will
prevent climate change from destroying the planet.