Sentences with phrase «real emissions scenario»

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The new analysis, led by former UW civil and environmental engineering graduate student Jordan Toy, compares carbon dioxide emissions and vehicle miles traveled from drone and truck deliveries in 10 different, real - world scenarios in Los Angeles.

If it was predicted in the real - world seasonal forecast but not in the scenario which is stripped of emissions, then it was made more likely by climate change — a likelihood that can be calculated.

Anytime where we can push the envelope on actually measuring and monitoring emissions from major facilities offers us a real win - win - win scenario.

There has been little real progress since the failure of the 2009 talks in Copenhagen, and the Global Carbon Project's latest report suggested global emissions are consistent with the worst of four scenarios — threatening up to 5 °C of warming by 2100.

When you look at real world scenarios, including studies that look at actual trajectories in emissions compared with the cuts needed for 2 degrees (see, for example, figure SPM.5, left panel or the very influential Peters et al 2012 article) a totally different picture emerges.

If Dr. Hansen never imagined Scenario A as being a real possibility for the next 20 years, I guess indicated by his description «Scenario A, since it is exponential, must eventually be on the high side of reality in view of finite resource constraints and environmental concerns, even though the growth of emissions in Scenario A (~ 1.5 % yr - 1) is less than the rate typical of the past century (~ 4 % yr - 1)» then his subsequent comment (PNAS, 2001) «Second, the IPCC includes CO2 growth rates that we contend are unrealistically large» seems to indicate that Dr. Hansen doesn't support some of the more extreme SRES scenarios.

The 3 forcing scenarios are nothing to do with the model — they come from analyses of real world emissions and there will always be ambiguity when forecasting economics.

It is evident from Figure 1 that CO2 emissions are following Hansen's Scenario A temperatures (forcings) whilst real - world temperatures are following the «zero increase in emissions» Scenario C.

• For a ~ 20 % real cost increase, the renewables option gives 62 % decrease c.f. nuclear 91 % decrease in emissions (compare scenarios 2 and 5).

• For the same real cost increase to 2050 (i.e. 15 %), BAU gives a 21 % increase in emissions c.f. the nuclear option a 77 % decrease in emissions (compare scenarios 1 and 3)

Of course real - world measurements show that temperature rise is barely on track for the RCP 2.6 scenario; the fantasy where all the governments of the world cooperatively apply punitive restrictions on CO2 emissions and revert their economies and standard of living to the early 19th century.

«Based on the science going into them, the [next] IPCC reports will have a real impact in offering diplomats a reckoning — and they don't handle reckonings well — with the observation that [greenhouse gas] emissions are all following the worst of the worst - case scenarios for the future.»

He did indicate imprecisely, what kind of emission scenarios would lead to the concentration scenarios, but not precisely enough to allow for real reconstruction.

The temporal response of the real world to the human - made climate forcing could be more complex than suggested by a simple response function calculation, especially if rapid emissions growth continues, yielding an unprecedented climate forcing scenario.

Based on a real world «business as usual» emissions scenario, with natural gas displacing oil at its current pace and no carbon tax, I come up with a CO2 right about inline with RCP 6.0, «a mitigation scenario, meaning it includes explicit steps to combat greenhouse gas emissions (in this case, through a carbon tax) ``.

For example, Adequacy and feasibility of the 1.5 C long - term global limit (Schaeffer et al. 2013) notes: «Constrained by real emissions until 2010 and energy - economic reduction potential until the 2020s, the 1.5 °C scenarios necessarily require net - negative CO2 emissions in the second half of the 21st Century.

The divergence between real world temperatures and the A1B emissions scenario is approximately 0.07 °C for 2005 and 0.11 °C for 2010.

We validated parameterization of the model diffusivity using CH4 and three halocarbon species (CFC11, CFC113, and CCl4) for which atmospheric histories have been estimated from emission scenarios and real - time measurements (60 — 62).

3) The predictions plotted were based on the A2 emissions scenario, which is close to, but not exactly the same as, the real CO2 evolution.

Real - world CO2 emissions have tracked the high end of earlier emissions scenarios [105], and until the currently wealthy countries can produce a large decline in their own emissions per capita, it is dubious to project that emissions per capita in the less developed countries will not continue on a trajectory up to the levels of currently wealthy countries.16

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